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

r. S. Wolfey, retired West Liberty
hardware dealer, has purchased the
Mrs. Russell Magee property on HUI
Der street in a deal handled by Mrs.
II. w. Althaus. Mr.. and Mrs. Wolf
ley expect to move here after the
holidays Mrs. Magee who is teach
ing in a Cleveland high school will
move her household goods to that
city.
Mrs. Corda Oerhli has sold to the
Triplett Electrical Instrument COM
pany vacant lot fronting on Pop
lar street adjoining the Cal Steiner
property.
Mrs. Agnes Warkentin Moore of
Vaughnsville has purchased the Levi
Frankhauser property on Cherry
street occupied by Cecil Kuhn. Mrs.
Moore and family expect to occupy
the property next March. The deal
was closed by Mrs. H. w. Althaus.
The Mrs. Ethel Roberts farm of
102 acres south of Bluffton on the
Dixie highway has been purchased
by Wilbur Riser of Vaughnsville, il
is announced by Mrs. H. w. Althaus.
Possession will be given next spring
Mrs. Roberts, residing in the Staater
apartments on Church street will
leave next week for an indefinite visit
in Arizona, accompanying her daugh-
ter and son-:n-law, Mr.. and Mrs
Myron Elliott of Columbus Grove
who are moving there.
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FARMERS RETAIN
wheat, CORN FOR
LIVESTOCK FEEDING
Shortage of Wheat for Human
Consumption Is Feared
By Nations Millers
Farmers Can Make Greater
Profit by Feeding Because
of Ceiling Prices

Limited stocks of wheat in the
bins of Bluffton area millers, with
little prospect of further marketing
by farmers in sizable quantities, is
a reflection of a nationwide situa-
tion that has occasioned concern in
some sources that there may be a
shortage in our cereal supply before
the next harvest season.
Less wheat was sold by farmers
this year, because ceiling prices on
the grain prevented them from sell
ing at the same margin of profit
they can obtain by feeding it to
livestock in their feeding lots.
This has resulted in a serious
situation, however, for the national
miller's federation reported tn S
week that unless there is an i'm
mediate reduction in the use of
wheat for livestock feed and for in
dustrial alcohol production we will
UC ldICu ps all uliHClCSodiy Siioi L
age of our cereal supply"
Recommendation of the federation
was that there be no further sales
of wheat for livestock feeding ex-
cept for such amounts as may be
obtained thru imports from Canada
and the Argentine.
Danger that total supplies o. f
wheat might be depleted to the point
where there would be insufficient
amounts to take care of needs for
human food first became apparent
last summer when the volume mar
keted by farmers was less than
normal.
Farm observers point out that
under rigid ceiling prices which do
not permit farmers to sell for much
of profit the tendency has been for
those with wheat to use it for live
stock feeding, tn ere y increasing
their chances of a better margin.
The same situation applies to corn,
very little of which is going onto
the market as farmers complete their
husking.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Sweet Christmas" In Prospect Here
AS Candy Makers Get More Sugar
BluftOn Man Named
On ODT Committee

Henry Huber, farmer residing north
of Bluffton was named as member
of the permanent advisory committee
for the Office of Defense Transporta-
ton in the 15-county area of North
western Ohio at meeting held in
Findlay, Saturday.
The meeting was called to act on
transportation differences and diff
culties which have arisen or are ex-
pected to arise.
Sixty-three persons were present
representing producers, haulers, deal
ers, market agencies and professors
from Allen, Hancock Putnam, Wood,
Seneca, Henry, Defiance, Sandusky,
Fulton, Williams, Lucas, Ottawa and
several counties in southern Michigan.
Huber was named to the committee
as one of the three representing pro-
ducers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
With The Sick

Mrs. Marden Basinger residing
north of Bluffton underwent an op-
Grafton for appendicitis at Bluffton
hospital, Tuesday night. Her condi-
tion is reported satisfactory.
Ray Marshall of Orange township
whose condition was reported serious
following an appendicitis operation
at Bluffton hospital, Sunday, is some
what improved. His son, Cpl. Carl
Marshall who has been home on fur
Tough left Wednesday morning, re-
turning to Camp Gordon Johnson,
Florida.
Condition of Willis Althaus, form
er Bluffton resident now living in
Ashland is reported unchanged. He
suffered a paralytic stroke a week
ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Triple
horn and son Sammy, Mrs. Edith
Burkholder. Mrs. David Burkholder
and Cleo Welty all of this place
visited at his home in Ashland, Sun
day.
T. A. Kitchen of Cherry street is
patient in Bluffton hospital.
Mrs. Rosa Bowsher of Lima is
caring for her cousin, Mrs. Ella
Long who is i'll at her home in the
Mrs. Edith Mann apartments on
North Main street.
Mrs. Samuel Augsburger of near
Beaverdam is reported seriously i'll
with pneumonia at St. Rita's hospital
in Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Cigars And Some Cigarets Will Be
Scarce For Christmas This Year

Cigars will be scarce for Christ
mas this year, some brands of cigar
cts will be equally hard to get, and
with the shortage expected to grow
more severe pipes are likely to at
tain new popularity with Bluffton
area smokers.
Tobacco dealers said this week
that the present scarcity of cheaper
cigars and only few of the popular
brands of cigarets will grow more
pronounced, and that soon the old
briar pipe and tobacco pouch will be
adopted by many a smoker who shun-
ned them before.
While cheaper brands of cigars
are scarce now because of unprece-
dented buying for boarding or gifts,
the genuinely scarce item in the fu-
ture will be the better grade cigar.
This will be, it is explained, because
the high grade cigar is handmade by
skilled workers, and there is a grow
Ilg scarcity of such help.
Present scarcity of cigarets, how
ever, is artificial and has resulted
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from boarding, wholesalers are ex-
planning. They say ample supplies
of pipe tobacco and cigarets are
available if consumers limit their
purchases to normal requirements.
However, it is agreed that cigars
definitely were on the scarce list.
Altho pipe tobacco for the most
part is plentiful the supply of good
pipes is not. Imported pipes are
almost a memory, and the better
grade domestic pipes made from
imported briar are getting few and
far between
Cheaper grade pipes are being
made from a domestic briar of
southern mountain laurel root burls
and the old standby corncob is still
on the market.
A combination of manpower short
age and lack of rubber for pipe
bits is described as the principal
for the pipe shortage. In the high
grade brands the cessation of inn
ports from England means pre-wal
stocks have not been replenished
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
First Move In Restricted Hunting
And Fishing Comes Before Council
Sportsmen's Club Asks That
Buckeye Lake Fishing Be
Reserved for Members
Local Sentiment Also Favors
Ban on Outside Hunters
In This Community

Sentiment for restrictions on hunt
ing and fishing rights in this area
for the benefit of local sportsmen
and farmers is growing here, and
the first move in a program toward
such control will come before the
municipal council next Monday night.
At their regular session, the coun-
cilmen will be asked to pass on the
proposal that fishing rights in Buck
eye lake, popular local spot for ang-
lers, be reserved only for members
of the Bluffton Community Sports
mans club.
Officials of the club point out that
restocking carried on by the organi-
zation is financed by its members
and that outsiders should not be per-
mitted to share in advantages made
possible by local funds.
Membership in the club, open to
residents of the town and commun-
lty, is available at very moderate
price and restricting Buckeye fishing
privileges to members would not bar
any local persons from the sport.
The problem of big-city hunters
also has come up for discussion at
meetings of Bluffton sportsmen, and
the sentiment is for the local group
to lease hunting rights from farmers
and bar outsiders from sharing in
the privilege.
AS in fishing, the hunter from out
side this community contributes moth
ing toward the cost of game re-
stocking financed by the local sports
mems group, and yet gets an un-
earned share of the benefits.
In addition, outside hunters are
responsible for most of the abuses
that result in more farmers posting
"No Hunting" signs every year, and
controlled hunting could easily pro-
vide the answer to that problem, it
was pointed out.
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Yuletide Supply of Sugar This
Year Will Be Two-thirds
of Normal, Dealers Say
Candy Last Year Was ScarceSt
In Generation Because of
Wartime Conditions

With more candy in prospect for
Christmas this year, Bluffton resi-
dents are looking forward to Sweet
er Yuletide" than in 1912 when the
available supply was estimated at
two thirds of normal
Improvement in the supply this
December is attributed to the release
of more sugar and chocolate to candy
and local dealers are looking
forward to having three-fourths as
much for sale as in pre-war years.
Recovery from the 1912 situation
when candy was the scarcest in more
than a generation will help Santa fill
stockings that otherwise might be
short because of depleted gift stocks
that merchants are offering under war
time conditions.
Hard-mixed candy, popularity known
as "hard-tack," probably will be the
leading item in Christmas sales, altho
the release of more chocolate will
make other kinds of sweets equally
plentiful to obtain.
Candy now is more plentiful on
dealers shelves than at any time since
the outbreak of war, first evidence of
the relaxation in rigid sugar and
chocolate rationing, and the supply
will grow more plentiful as the Christ
mas season approaches.
Last year when the available supply
was estimated at two-thirls of nor
NAL, candy stocks were soon depleted
by many who bought early in larger
quantities than usual for boarding
purposes.
Assurance of more candy for Christ
mas this year has been apparent to
dealers for several weeks, following
announcement that 10 per cent more
sugar and 15 per cent more chocolate
would be available for Christmas
candy this winter than in 1912.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Births

Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Evans of
Pueblo, Colorado, are he parents of
a daughter born at that place, Mon
dav. Mrs. Evans is the former
Marjorie McElroy; daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank McElroy of South
Main street.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs Oren Doty
of Mt. Cory, son, Donald Oren,
November 23 at Findlay hospital.
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs Myron Motter of
South Main street, daughter,
Thursday.
Nj. and Mrs. Frann Sheidler of
Leipsic. a daughter, 10 Ellen, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Simon of Ada,
a daughter, Sunday. Mrs. Simon is
the former Bucilla Amstutz of this
place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Wings OUer Jordan
Choir Here FridnY

The Wings Over Jordan choir will
present concert in the Bluffton
High school gymnasium at p. m.
this Friday, under auspices of the
Bluffton Col lie ge department of
music.
This is the second nationality pro-
minent musical organization to be
presented here this fall by the col
lege, concert given earlier in the
fall by the original Russian Cossack
chorus having been a distinct sue
cess.
The Wings Over Jordan choir
broadcasts to listening audience of
more than 100000 persons every
Sunday morning over Radio Station
VICAR in Cleveland.
Negro spirituals are featured by
the group in its concert appearances,
and the favorites "Swing Low Sweet
Chariot, Couldn't Hear Nobody
Pray, and Sometimes | Feel Like
q hOtHeIleSS 1filIu always are sung.
More than 160 spirituals and semi
religious numbers are included in the
repertoire of the group.
This negro choir was organized
by Rev. Glenn t. Settle, prominent
negro clergyman of Cleveland, who
accompanies it to serve as the mar
rator for it's concerts. Special 20
second narrations precede each selec-
ton.
Hattye Easley, prominent negro
musician, will direct the choir in its
appearance here.
Prof. Russell A. Lantz, of the col
lege department of music, made ar
rangements for the Bluffton appear
ance of the choir. Prof. Otto Holt
kamp has charge of the sale of
tickets.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Golden Wedding
At Ada Sunday

Golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Dodge will be observed at their
home in Ada, Sunday, when open
house will be held in the afternoon
from 2 to o'clock. Friends are in
vited to CALL
The couple was married Dec. Z,
1898 by Rev. Barney Van Vaulkin-
burg at his residence near Ada. They
have spent their entire married life
in the Ada vicinity, the past thirty
years at their present location, 507
North Liberty street.
They have one daughter, Mrs.
James Newland and two sons, Z. r.
and Roy Dodge all of Ada, also six
teen grandchildren, including three
grandsons in the armed services.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Funeral Service
For Infant Tuesday

Funeral services for Perry Diller,
12-day-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sherwood Diller of Ypsilanti, Mich,
were held at the Paul Diller funeral
home Tuesday afternoon.
The child, born at Bluffton hos
pital November II, died at that
place, Monday afternoon. Death
was due to pneumonia.
Surviving besides the parents are
a brother Peter at home and the
grandparents, Mrs. w. E. Diller of
st. Louis, formerly of Bluffton and
Mr.. and Mrs. P. M. Driver of Lima.
Rev. E. N. Bigelow of the Presby
terian church officiated at the funer-
al services. Interment was in Maple
Grove cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Two Bluffton Soldiers, Bluffton
Nurse Meet Somewhere In italy

Reunion of three Bluffton area
persons near the front lines in Italy
recently was an unexpected and en-
Joyable meeting, it was learned here
this week.
Two Bluffton soldiers, Donald Nc
Cafferty and James Suter met Lieut..
Mary McGinnis Spinelli, an army
nurse, and had a pleasant talk about
home.
Lieut.. Spineli is the eldest daugh-
ter of Dell McGinnis, of this place;
McCafferty is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl McCafferty, of Richland
township, and Suter, formerly of
Pandora, is the husband of the form
er Elvira Niswander, of Bluffton.
Suter and McCafferty are serving
with a hospital unit in Italy and it
is believed that the meeting took
place IN an army hospital.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
BLUFFTON SOLDIER
ON SHIP BOMBED IN
SICILIAN INVASION
Sgt. Edwin Rice Narrowly Es-
capes Death AS Flames
Envelop Transport
Picked Up by American Boat
While Struggling i'm Break
ers Off Shore

Details of how Staff Sergeant Ed
win Rice was wounded in the invasion
of Sicily were disclosed this week, the
first word received here since the
Bluffton youth was awarded a Purple
Heart medal early in the fall.
Sgt. Rice narrowly escaped death
when the ship on which he was being
transported was bombed and set on
fire off the coast of Sicily during the
invasion of July 10.
His account to his fiancee, Miss
Ethelyn Oyer, now teaching at Salem
Centralized school near Upper San
dusky, read as follows:
"We were bombed aboard ship as
we landed off the shore of Sicily. As
the bomb hit and went below deck |
was but a few yards from where it
struck.
almost instantly the boat became
a furnace. The abandon ship" o.
der came a few minutes after the ship
was hit, and the next thing | found
myself in the water, clothes and all
"Among others | began a fight for
my life. / was in the water when
Jerry dropped another bomb beside
me, which fortunately didn't explode,
for which | have thanked the Good
Lord many times.
"Amid the strafing, shrapnel from
the ships exploding ammunition and
the six-foot breakers | fought my way
toward shore. | was picked up some
so or 60 yards out by an American
duck boat and was taken ashore with
the more fortunate. During the two
following days was in the shore
hospital"
Sgt. Rice now is in Italy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
RATION POINTS ON
BEEF WILL BE CUT
BEGINNING MONDAY
Reduction Will Average From
! Two to Three Points
L. Per Pound
utter Points Unchanged; Lard
Drops; Increases Com
u ing in Cheese

8i<atlon costs of most beef cuts will
crop from two to three points per
pound beginning next Monday, it is
announced by the Office of Price
Administration at Washington.
Soealed variety meats are also in
cluded in the reduction by an aver
age Of from one to two points.
Pork cuts, generally, with minor
exceptions, will remain at the present
levels which were reduced by OPA
several weeks ago.
800 More Meat
The point reductions, effective
Sunday, will make available for each
family 80 per cent more meat than
was available in recent months.
Butter, however, remains unchang-
ed at the present level of Is points
per pound.
Fresh, smoked and cooked sausage
together with several varieties of
timed meats are reduced in points,
but increases of as much as -four
points will go into effect for canifed
fish and two to three points for
cheddar and cream cheese.
Lard Drops
Lard viii be reduced one point per
pound. Also grapefruit and other
citrus juices, sauerkraut and ready
to-serve soups (not concentrated)
will be removed from rationing and
point values Of a number of canned
vegetables has been reduced
In beef cuts, steaks and roasts
will drop three points per pound
while stews and other cuts will be
reduced for the most part two
points. Hamburger, now points
will be 9 points under the set
schedule. Veal steak, now ~ points
viii be set at 10 points per pound.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
XMAS LIGHTS WILL
BE MISSING FROM
DOWNTOWN area
War Restrictions Responsible
For Eliminating of Gus
tomary Yuletide Garb
Christmas Shopping Already In
Full Swing; Peak to Be
Reached Soon

Brilliant colored lights spanning the
street and other customary forms of
fuletide decorations will be missing
from Buttons downtown district
this Christmas season, and illuminat-
ed settings in keeping with the holiday
will be confined to private homes.
Elimination of all forms of illumi-
mated street decorations has been ask
ed by the War Production Board thru
the Office of War Information, for
the second consecutive year.
Decorative lighting of exteriors of
homes, interiors and exteriors of plac-
es of business and the use of COM
munity Christmas trees also are
frowned upon by the government
agencies. Consequently Bluffton's il
Illuminated Christmas setting this year
will be confined only to church func-
tions and in private homes.
Early Xmas Shopping
Bluffton stores already have their
hands full in attempting to cope with
heavy Christmas buying, and there
are indications that the peak of the
shopping season will be passed two
or perhaps three weeks before the
holiday
Earlier buying has been the rule
rather than the execution this vaar
bcause shoppers realize stocks on
merchants shelves are limited, and
that those who delay too long in buy
ing presents will have difficulty in
finding them.
Opening musical observance of the
Christmas season will be the Bluffton
College Choral Society's annual rem
dition of Handel's oratorio, ''The Mes
siah," at s p. m. Sunday, December
10, in the high school gymnasium.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
M0Ue Equipment OF
Plant To Findlay

Equipment of the Scott & Ewing
company, Bluffton manufacturing
concern was moved to Findlay the
first of the week.
The plant located for many years
on Cherry street near the Riley
creek bridge was engaged in the
manufacture and marketing of gear
and wheel pullers. 1t was operated
as a partnership of the late Frank
Scott and his son-in-law Elmer
Ewing.
Following the death of Scott, the
senior partner, several years ago it
was continued under direction of
Ewing until the latter's death last
fall. The plant, it is understood,
will continue to operate in Findlay.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Brotherhood FIOlUer
Day Here Saturday

Brotherhood Day" sale of arti-
fetal flowers in Bluffton next Satur-
day for the national benefit of the
blind and shut-ins was announced on
Tuesday.
Proceeds from the flower sale are
used by the Brotherhood of Service
to provide reading matter in Braille
for the blind, furnish white canes
for those who cannot see, to provide
assistance for those handicapped in
other ways.
Miss Esther Berky will direct the
sales, assisted by Mayor Wilbur A
Howe, Mrs. Charles Hankish, Mrs
A. j. B. Longsdorf, Rev. j. A. Weed
and Miss Ocie Anderson.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Lit. Griffith Assigned
To NelU Army Post

1t James Griffith, former assist
ant adjutant at the army air base
at Hamilton Field, Calf, a San
Francisco suburb, has been trans
ferred to Reading, Calf, where he
has been assigned duties. He is
leaving this week for his new as
signment accompanied by his wife.
The couple are former Bluffton
young people, 1t. Griffith being the
grandson of Mrs. ]. A. Rogers and
Mrs. Griffith the former Miss Zitella
Gettles, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Gettles, both of South Main
street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Coach Burcky Gets
Scouting Certificate

Coach A. C. Burcky, of Bluffton,
received a Scoutmaster's Training
Course certificate at the last session
of the course held last Sunday after
noon at Twin Oaks woods near Lima.
Coach Burcky is new scoutmaster
of Troop No. 56, of Bluffton, succeed
ing Kari Gable, who has been in
Quoted inc he army.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Minister Leaves For
Southern Ohio Charge

Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Bright left
Monday for Shadyside, Belmont
county where he has accepted call
to the pastorate of the First Chris
tian church. Rev. Bright, pastor of
the Button Beaverdam charge of
the Church of Christ recently re-
signed after two and one-half years
of service here.
No announcement has been made
relative to his successor here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Former BlUftOn
Man Dies In Lima

Benjamin F. "Bun" Lambert, 61,
of Lima, former Bluffton resident,
died at Lima Memorial hospital,
Thursday morning. Funeral services
were held at the Siferd and Son
funeral home, Saturday afternoon.
Surviving are his widow, one son
Thomas Jefferson and one daughter
Emma Jean Lambert, both at home
and sister, Mrs. Alice Lugibill of
Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-02
Judge Smith To Talk
At Union Service

Judge Raymond P. Smith, of the
Allen County Probate Court, will be
the speaker at Bluffton Union Church
services at 1880 p. m. next Sunday
in the First Presbyterian church.
Judge Smiths subject will be on
juvenile delinquency. Special music
also will be provided for the service.