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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-02-11
WNU Service, Union Trust Building

NNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington. d. G.
A few weeks ago. an earnest and
agreeable young man came to my
pfiice from the American Farm Blu
Feau federation. His name is Ben
kilgore. He Is 4 Kentucky Farm
bureau man. a former farm paper
editor who has Just been put In
charge Of the bureaus publicity here
h Washington. probably as result
ef some remarks without any bark
IN them which Chester Davis. for
ncr war food administrator and
president of the Federal Reserve
Bank Of st. Louis. made at the re.
cent bureau convention.
Davis did not say that the bureau
and some other farm organizations
we're interfering with the war effort
and trying to be hoggish by fighting
tor higher food prices but he did say
that the people of the country were
beginning to talk that way about
farmers. And he told the organiza-
kion members that il they weren't
rs black as they were painted. they
had better begin telling the people
Ut the country so.
And SO the bureau went out for
some new blood kilgore is not
new to the farm bureau but he is
new t Washington. He has served
In y sntueky. He knows his sub
X / and can write about 1t.
I couldn't say whether he has
Frightened the grim picture which
Mr.. Davis painted to the bureau
be has hardly had tine--but his
presence Is evidence Of dynamics
which are energising this chip Of
the farm bloc--or one might put 1t
the other way. for the Farm Bureau
federation is really the tail that Wags
the dog when 1t comes to getting
congressional action.
And soon action will begin, for the
grace extended to the Commodity
Credit corporation expires February
II and then the fight over the subsl-
dies begins in earnest.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
GideOns To Speak
Here Next SuYtday

Representative of the Lima camp
of Gideons, christian commercial
business mems organization will
speak In four Blufffon area churches,
Sunday, it is announced ~ VIM.
BurkhoIder of Bluffton and Il shirl
Hatfield of Pandora in charge of
assignments in this districts.
The following speaking schedule
has been arranged:
r. c. Crosby of Lima at the
Ebenezer Mennonite church in the
evening. Assignments for Sunday
morning are:
Assignments for Sunday morning
are: ID. w. Grisso of Ottawa at the
Defenseless Mennonite church; F. G..
Conrad of New Hampshire at the
Bluffton Church of Christ; E. J.
Wahlie of Bluffton at the Missionary
church and James Hartman of Lima
at Beaverdam Church of Christ.
Besides BurkhoIder and Wahlie,
other local members of the Gideons
are Waldo Hofstetter and John Tosh.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Large Quota For
Surgical Dressings

Buttons Red Cross has been as
signed a quota of 10000 surgical
dressings to be completed by October
l, it is announced by Mrs. J. S.
Steiner, head of the work here.
To fill this quota on time more
workers are needed, she said, and
work room in the Grade school build
ing will be open every Monday night
at 7:30 and afternoons, Tuesday
thru Friday from 1 80 to A o'clock.
Material for the months quota
has been received and the work must
go on at an ever increasing pace to
meet the needs of the armed forces.
Pandora and Orange township
women have responded to the appeal
in a most helpful way and some
Bluffton women are working daily
while many women have not given
any of their time, Mrs. Steiner said.
This appeal is for those who may
find time for a few hours a week, if
they plan to do so, she said, stating
eff it were your boy that was
wounded could you plan your duties
to supply his needs?"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Lima Interests Buy
TlOO Diaries Here

Meadow Gold Dairy interests of
Lima have bought out Buttons two
dairy establishments, the Hy-Grade
and Hofstetter dairies, it was an
nounced the first of the week.
The deal whereby the Lima con-
cern took over the Hy-Grade dairy
was closed Tuesday afternoon and
announced by Paul Detwiler, Hy-
Grade proprietor, whose dairy depot
is located on South Main street.
At the same time Detwiler an
nounced that beginning October l he
has accepted a position with the
Dunn & Bradstreet Mercantile agency
and has been assigned to the con-
GERMS Toledo office. His family
will continue to reside here.
Purchase of the Waldo Hofstetter
dairy which was operated from Hof-
stetter's farm west of Bluffton was
announced two weeks ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Wed In Pandora
Sunday Afternoon

Wedding of Miss Mary Lou Carr,
daughter of Harold Carr of Mt
Cory and David Yoder of Landis-
vile, Pa, Bluffton college graduate,
was solemnized Sunday afternoon at
2 o'clock in the parsonage of the
Grace Mennonite church in Pandora.
Rev. Forrest Musser, pastor of the
church, officiated in the double ring
ceremony. The bridegroom is the
son of Willis Yoder of Goshen, Ind.
The bride was attired in a cherry
rose suit with black accessories and
a shoulder corsage of pink roses.
Darrell Carr, brother of the bride,
served as best man and Miss Joan
Carr also was in attendance.
A reception at the home of the
bride followed the ceremony.
The bride is a graduate of Mt.
Cory high school and has been en-
ployed in the office of the Producers
Cooperative association in Findlay.
Mr.. Yoder, formerly of Pandora, is
a graduate of Pandora high school.
After a brief wedding trip the
couple will reside in Landisville, Pa,
where Mr.. Yoder is employed as an
artificial breeding technician.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Funeral Here For
Former Resident

Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth
Boehr, widow of the late Peter
Boehr were held at the First Men
MONTE church Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Boehr died at Tiffin Sunday
where she made her home with her
daughter Miss Elizabeth Boehr, in
structor in Heidelberg college. Her
death followed a four months i'll
ness.
The body was brought here We'd
nesday afternoon. Officiating at the
funeral services were Rev. J. N.
Smucker pastor of the First Men
monte church and DR.. Josephson,
president of Heidelberg college. In
terment was in Maple Grove ceme-
terry.
Mrs. Boehr was born in Kaiserlu-
ten, Germany, and came to this
country 65 years ago. In 1924 the
family moved from Wisner, Ne
braska, to Bluffton where she re-
sided Tor twelve years since which
time she made her home with her
daughter in Tiffin.
Surviving are three sons Jacob
Boehr of Newton, Kansas; Henry of
Wisner, Nebraska, and John of Bluff
ton, and three daughters Elizabeth
of Tiffin; Mrs. d. ]. Brand of Jack
sonville, Florida, and Mrs. E. r.
Moser of Bluffton.
Also surviving are two sisters,
Misses Lena and Emma Schowalter
of Talmage, Nebraska, and two bro
theirs Jacob Schowalter of Beatrice,
Nebraska, and John Schowalter OF
Lincoln, Nebraska.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
WILD LIFE SEEKS
WATER AS CREEKS
IN AREA RUN DRY
Animals Driven From Usual
Haunts in Desperate Quest
For Water.
Long Stretches of Stream Beds
Dusty Gullies as Drought
Returns.

Wild life thruout the Bluffton area
is being hard hit by the recurrence
of drought conditions which have be-
set this district with but minor inter-
ruptions since last June.
Streams are at lowest levels in
recent years and stretches of dusty
gullies mark creek beds. Big Riley
in its upper reaches has ceased flow
ing and is completely dry from the
Nickel Plate railroad bridge to a
point beyond Fox Hill, a distance of
more than half mile.
Drying up of streams has taken
a heavy casualty in fish. However,
residents along the creeks have in
some instances removed the fish to
other places. This occurred during
the past week when a quantity of
hullheads trapped in small pools of
Marsh run were rescued and placed
in the Buckeye quarry.
WILD LIFE HAUNTs BARNYARDS
Driven to desperation because of
the lack of water, wild life in the
Bluffton area has forsaken its Gus
tomary haunts and ranges far and
wide to seek the few remaining
water holes in creeks and streams.
Reports are current of squirrels
and raccoon being seen in increasing
number in farmyards drinking from
livestock watering troughs and a
number have been found drowned
when they inadvertently fell in.
With the opening of the squirrel
season, Friday, hunters are predict
ing that the best place to seek game
will be at water holes along creeks
and other spots where there is an
ample water supply.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Former BIuftOn
Man Weds In East

Announcement has been received
here of the wedding of Walter Klay
and Miss Bertha Eyler, both of
Waynesboro, Pa.
Mr.. Klay is a Bluffton native, SON
of the late J. j. Klay and brother
of Mrs. S. H. Stepleton and Elmer
Klay of this place. For a number
of years he has been shop superin-
tendent of the Lands Tool company
in Waynesboro.
The wedding took place in the
Thurmont United Brethren church
with the ring ceremony performed
by the pastor, Rev. Ivan Naugle.
The couple was unattended.
Prior to her marriage the bride
had been employed as secretary in
an industrial plant.
Following wedding trip to New
York city they are living at BIB
West Sixth street in Waynesboro.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Is men TAKEN IN
SEPTEMBER DRAFT
CALL OF BOARD 3
This Months InductionS Stay
Light for Third Month
In Succession
Farm Deferments for Youths
Under 26 May Be Void
In Next so Days

September draft call of Allen
Coutny Board No. 8, which took 25
men from rural Allen county last
week, for the third month in a row
is materially lighter than the whole
sale induction of last spring which
reached peak in April when ITO
registrants were sworn into the armed
forces.
No Bluffton men were included in
last weeks induction, and only one
registrant was taken from the area,
Robert Milburn Criblez, of Bluffton
Route 2.
Mark Garmatter, of Lima, formerly
of Bluffton, also was one of the in
ductees. He is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Garmatter, of Elm street.
Both Garmatter and Criblez were
sworn into the army.
Two More Than August
September's call of 25 was only
two more than in August when % men
were Inducted, but 1t took three times
as many registrants as in July when
eight men were called by Board 3.
October and November calls may be
slightly heavier, but the majority of
those drafted will be boys who have
just turned 18 and from the group
under 26 years of age who have had
deferments,
Indications are that draft calls
during the fall months win include
number of farm youths under 26
who were deferred during the spring
and summer because of agricultural
work. Informed sources say there
will be little prospect for continued
deferment of those youths under 26
after the fall crops are harvested.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
END OF WORK ON
MAIN ST. BRINGS
SPEEDING PROBLEM
New, Smooth Surface Used AS
Speedway by Drivers of
Trucks and Autos
Traffic Lights Now Operate All
Night As A Partial Con-
troll Measure

Completion of the resurfacing of
Main street this week brought new
municipal problem in the form of
controlling automobile and truck driv-
ers who succumb to the desire of turn
ing the wide, smooth thorofare into
a speedway.
Most of the trouble has been with
night traffic, and as control meas
ure the three traffic lights on the
street now are being operated "a
hours a day.
In the past, the traffic lights have
been turned Off about midnight, but
with completion of the new street
automobiles and trucks went speed
ing thru town at such high speed as
to constitute a definite accident haz-
ard.
Tightening of all traffic regulations
also was announced by local police
who said that speeders and motorists
who run" traffic signals viii be par
ticular targets in the campaign TO
promote highway safety in the viii
lage.
South Main street and College av-
enue intersection has been an especial
dangerous spot for some time. Sew
eral accidents and many near acci-
dents have occurred at the intersec-
tions and it will be one of the places
that will be checked carefully for the
next several weeks, as part Of the
safety campaign.
With the completion of work on
Main street this week, the Churchill
Co., of Linn, has transferred its OPP
erations to Cherry and Church streets.
A new concrete-asphalt surface will
be placed over the present brick pave
ment, laid in 1904, which is the old
est in the town.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21

Sturges S. Dunham, II, prominent
New York attorney who was reared
in Bluffton, died Monday at his sum-
mer home in Westport, Conn.,, ac-
cording to word received here.
He was graduated from Button
high school in the ciS1~of 1891 and
later attended Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity. His father was Rev. E. S.
Dunham pastor of the Methodist
church here.
He was a member of the patent
law firm of Cooper, Kerr & Dunham
and represented number of large
Cleveland firms in patent matters.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Stella
Secrest Dunham formerly of Chilli
cothe and a son, Lieut.. Robert S.
Durham of the Navy.
Also surviving are brother, Rev.
Ray Dunham of Oxford, Ohio, and
a sister, Miss Florence Dunham, Ii
brarian at the University of In
diana, Bloomington, Indiana.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
NO CROP LOSSES
DUE TO SHORTAGE
OF FARM LABOR
Farmers Draft Members of
Families to Cope with
Situation
Weather is Big Help in Wheat
Harvest and Corn Cut
ting Here

While the volume of available farm
labor this year is the smallest within
the memory of farmers in the Bluff
ton district, there have been virtually
no crop losses because of labor short
age.
The shortage of farm labor which
loomed large at the outbreak of the
war has been met successfully by
farmers usually by drafting members
of the family into service and plan
ming farm operations within a scope
that may be handled within the fam
lily itself.
The pinch of a farm labor short
age which became acute year ago
was more severe this past summer,
however farmers proved sufficiently
resourceful to cope with the situation
by planning farm operations within a
scope that could be handled without
outside help and cooperating with
neighbors on a labor exchange basis.
Weather Big Help
The weather, too, has been a large
factor in successfully overcoming the
labor shortage. While drought con-
ditions cut yields, especially the corn
crop, at the same time it provided a
stretch of more than two midsummer
months of almost entirely uninter-
rupted weather for work In the fields
thereby enabling the farmer to use
to the fullest his diminishing supply
of labor.
For the first time in years there
was no rain during the entire wheat
harvest season in the .Bluffton dis
trict. Likewise the corn cutting seas
on which started early this month has
had little interruption because of
weather conditions.
Widely publicized programs advo-
eating city help on farms as an emer-
gency measure found no response
here. Farmers pointed out that it
requires the time of sesaoned hands
to train inexperienced help in the use
of modern power farm machinery and
by the time they become sufficiently
skilled to handle the equipment the
period for its use has passed.
More Liable to Accidents
Also farmers point out that mex
perienced help is vastly more liable
to accidents in handling of livestock
and farm machinery.
The Ohio law makes a farmer per.
sonally responsible for accidental in.
juries suffered by employee if the
farmer, during the year employs three
or more workers and does not protect
himself by carrying state compensa
tion insurance.
Despite precautions, the farm acci
dent rate is higher than for any othel
industry, but the cost of carrying
compensation insurance is small whel
compared with some judgements whicl
have been awarded following acci
dents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Three From Area Are
In AirpIdne Crashes

Three men from the Bluffton area
were involved in airplane accidents
within the past week, one dying
from his injuries.
The dead man is 1t. q. g.) Clyde
Steinhour, %, of Columbus Grove
who died Sunday at the naval air
hospital at Ottumwa, Iowa, from i'm
juries sustained Saturday when a
training plane crashed as he was in
structing a cadet. The cadet was
not injured.
Two others injured were Sgt. Ed
Hottensmith, 81, and Clarence Dyer,
ID, of near Findlay, both Civil Air
Patrol members when the training
plane which they were flying from
the Findlay airport crashed on the
Walter Swinehart farm near Raw
son Monday night at 7 o'clock.
Both men are in a critical condi-
tion in the Findlav hospital. Hot
tensmith's left leg was amputated
at the ankle in an operation at the
hospital following the accident Mon
day night. Dyer's arm is broken
and he received other injuries.
Body of 1t. Steinhour was brought
to Col. Grove where funeral serv-
ices were held Wednesday afternoon
followed By interment in the Truro
cemetery. His wife who survives is
the former Josephine Granger of
Columbus Grove. Also surviving is
a daughter Sonya Kaye, his father,
two brothers and three sisters.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Real Estate Deals

The North Lawn avenue property
occupied by Don Reams has been
purchased by Paul Basinger from
Walter Marshall of Orange town
ship. Basinger expects to occupy
the property this fall moving from
apartments in the Ed Chamberlain
property on Cherry street, formerly
the Clymer property.
Gerald Swank, former Bluffton
barber who closed his shop on North
Main street to join the navy, has
purchased from Leland Sechler the
room occupied by the shop. Swank,
a coxswain in the navy, is stationed
at Jacksonville, Florida, and is here
on leave.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Big Pilot Reported
Missing N0tU Is Safe

Captain Boyd Grubaugh, of Van
Vert, brother of Captain Glover
Grubaugh and Miss .Nedra Cru
baugh, both of whom formerly at
tended Bluffton college, who had been
listed as missing in action in China
is safe and again on duty as a pilot
of a BIO Super Fortress.
On Sept. 7 his parents were noti-
fled he was missing, but this week
they heard he was again on. duty.
No details were given.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
New Soy Beans Reach Market; Price
Is Fixed At S2.O4; Yield Is Light

First soy beans of this years
crop were sold on the Bluffton mark
ct this week. Basic standard price
for this years crop has been fixed
at s2.04 per bushel BY government
agencies, local dealers stated.
This is a material advance over
the price for last years crop of
s1.86. Any beans from last years
crop will continue to be bought at
the latter price, it was stated here.
Indication are that the yield this
year will run from 20 to % bushels
per acre which is about one-third
under the average yield. Quality of
the beans is said to be good.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Husband Is III
In NelU Guinea

Sgt. Frank Houston is seriously
i'll in New Guinea, according to a
telegram received here Sunday by
his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Stratton
Houston.
The message came from the War
department which gave no further
details regarding his illness except
to state that she would be further
advised as reports of his condition
are received.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Hours For Public
Library Announced

Buttons public library at the
high school building is open every
week day from a. m. to p. m.
except Saturday when the hours are
from noon to 5 p. M, it is an
nounced by the librarian, Miss Ocie
Anderson.
The library also is open on Mon
day, Wednesday and Saturday even-
ings from $50 to 8 p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Wayne Daley Wins
Air GUfiner's WinQs

Wayne w. Daley, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dwight E. Daley of near
Bluffton, received his silver gunner's
wings when he completed the flexible
gunnery course for radio men at the
Yuma Army Air Field this week.
Prior to his training in flexible gun
merry, Corporal Daley graduated
from the Radio Operators and Me-
chanics School, Sioux Falls, South
Dakota. He is a graduate of Bluff
ton High school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Rodney Clements
Rites Held Friduy

Rodney Jean Clements, infant son
of Ivan and Cleda (Binkley) Gle
ments, of Mound street.. died last
Thursday afternoon at Lima Memoir
ial hospital. The child was born
on September IL.
In addition to the parents, sur
vivors are the grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Lester Binkley, of Bluff
ton, and G. J. Clements, of McComb.
Funeral services were held Friday
at the Paul Diller funeral home.
Rev. ]. A. Weed, pastor of the First
Methodist church, officiated. Burial
was in Maple Grove cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Squirrel Season Opens Friday
Many Hunters to Go Out
This Year
Guns of Those Hunting Within
Town Boundary Will Be
COnfiscated

Although a shortage of ammuni-
tion is cutting the interest in squir-
rel hunting in some areas Bluffton
district nimrods have a sufficient
supply to insure as much hunting
here as in normal years, according
to survey made this week by the
Community Sportsman's club.
Few hunters viii be kept at home
because of lack of ammunition this
fall and when the season. opens this
Friday it will be the signal for
hundreds of local sportsmen to de-
ploy thru the wooded areas of the
community. Altho not much am
munition has been released so far
there has been enough to insure
squirrel hunting in normal proper
tions.
Open season on squirrels is short
again this year, for it will close on
September 30, which gives only two
Saturdays for hunting to those who
are employed in war plants and can
not get away on other days.
With the opening of the hunting
season in the immediate offing, mu.
nicipal officials and game authorities
this week announced their intention
of cracking down" severely on any
hunters caught shooting within the
Bluffton village limits.
The town boundaries will be pa
trolled thruout the season by game
wardenss and other officials, who
have authority to make arrests and
confiscate the guns of those hunting
within the village limits.
To CoNFIscATE GUNS
Anyone caught hunting in towr
will lose his gun until the close OF
the rabbit hunting season next Jan,
uary, and violators also are liable
to arrest and prosecution.
Game reserves in this district alse
will be patrolled regularly, and in
the town particular emphasis will be
stressed on checking the creek dis.
tricts and the area around the Buck,
eye and National quarries.
Deputy game wardens sworn il
Monday night by Mayor w. A
Howe to patrol the town are Jesse
Manges, Fred Tschantz and Herbert
Rupright. Marshal Lee Coon anC
Night Policeman Clayton Murray
also will help.
Bluffton High school students will
be excused from school for half !;
day on the opening day of squire
hunting this Friday, providing the!
present written request from thei
parents showing that they actual.
plan to go hunting and that the par
ents have no objection.
On the eve of the opening of tn
season, State Conservation Com
missioner Don Waters reported tha
1 squirrels are more plentiful thai
ever in most sections of the state
The bag limit is four in one da
and eight allowed in possession afte
the opening day.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-21
Births

The following births in Bluffton
hospital:
Cpl. and Mrs. Dan Matthews, a
son, Friday. Mrs. Matthews is the
former Hope kincaid of this place.
Rev. and Mrs. V. C. Oppermam
of South Lawn avenue, a son, Sat-
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rowe, TT. Jen-
nings, daughter, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Anderson,
Pandora, daughter, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Stoody, Pan
dora, a son, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Schaller, Raw
son, a daughter, Sunday.