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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
Richland Center

Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Marquart, Jr.,
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Orrin Zim-
norman and family and James Gal
liant were Sunday dinner guests. of
Mr.. and Mrs. Andy Hochstettler and
family. Afternoon callers were, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Rusmisal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Luginbuhl
called on Mrs. Sam Kohler and
daughter Thursday evening.
Walter Badertscher, S &c, of Pitts
burgh, is spending this week with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bad
ertscher.
Madilyn McCune was a Monday
evening supper guest of Glenna
Swick.
Mrs. Paul Rhoads and daughter
Jean and son Michael of Detroit,
Mich, are spending several weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto
Amstutz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Gratz and
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Jennings spent
Sunday evening with Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Amstutz.
Mrs. Henry Green and son Bobby
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
Western Hemisphere Is Principal
Producer And Consumer OF Coffee

Guiana. The cultivation of coffee
spread from there to the West In
dies and to several other American
countries, particularly Brazil, where
its cultivation extended from north
to south and developed in an extra
ordinary fashion.
In 1926 the Americas contributed
already so per cent of the world
production of coffee with Brazil alone
producing 20 per cent of that
amount. Today Brazil still main
tains its preponderance as far as
quantity is concerned, as it is respon-
sible for so per cent of the Western
Hemisphere's production of 80 per
cent of the worlds total.
While only four of the twenty-one
American republics are coffee import
ters; Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and
the United States, fifteen of them
are producers of that commodity:
Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guate-
mala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Mica
ragua, Peru, Ell Salvador, Venezuela
and the United States.
The coffee plant itself is shrub
which grows from eight to twenty
| feet high, has white blossoms, dark
red berries and long evergreen leaves
The tree blossoms at the end OF
three years but does not bear a
| good crop until about the sixth year
Coffee is a hand-picked crop and
the picking season very busy one
at the plantation. Men, women anG
children, with baskets or bags slune
over their shoulders, walk up anc
down between the rows picking the
berries from the trees.
Over-ripe berries shrink up, so the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
Bluffton College Notes

DR.. Samuel NJ. Zwemer, of the
Biblical seminary in New York City,
has been selected as college Bible
lecturer for 1914. DIR. Zwemer was
a missionary in Arabia for many
years and is an authority on the
Mohammedan religion. He was a
pioneer in the Student Volunteer
movement, and was close associate
of Robert E. Speer. He was form
erly associated with Princeton. The
Bible lecture series next fall, will be
held the week of November IL.
Commencement activities will begin
Friday evening, at $3.50 p. M, with
presentation of Paul Bliss cantata,
"Pan on a Summer Day." by the
college women's glee club. This
program is open to the public. No
admission will be charged, but an
Will UC tdhCn tiiS
performance.
Bluffton Day will be observed
Saturday, with all traditional activi-
ties excepting the usual morning
athletic events. Mems and women's
Varsity "B" breakfasts will start the
day off, with informal campus and
building tours taking up the morn
ing hours. The Pi Delta luncheon
for members of that society, anC
the Student Christian association
luncheon on the campus for al
students and guests, will be served
at IL o'clock noon. Reunions for the
classes of 1924 and 1884, also have
been planned for the noon hour.
The 1914 class program will bt
held in the Ramseyer chapel at /: 81
p. m., and will be followed i'm
mediately by the 1914 and 1884 Bo,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

ceremony outside College hall at 2:30
p. m. Music by Bluffton alumni will
be heard in the Ramseyer chapel at
3 p. m.
Growing of the May Queen,
Wilma Mumma, local girl, will take
place on the baseball diamond at
p. m. The traditional pageant with
May Pole dance, and senior attend
ants will be held. Miss Wanda Suter,
senior from Columbus Grove, will
serve as Maid of Honor to the
Queen; and Ellis Guthrie, senior from
Lafayette, as popular man, will es-
cort the Queen to her throne.
Annual alumni banquet will be
held in the Ropp hall dining room at
p. m. 1t will be followed by the
three act play, Letters to Lucerne,' y
by Vincent and Rotter, to be pre-
sented by the college Thespian group.
Baccalaureate services will be held
in the Ramseyer chapel Sunday
afternoon, May IA. President Lloyd
L. Ramseyer will deliver the
Baccalaureate address, Lift Up Your
Eyes" Following Baccalaureate will
be the Presidents reception at the
Presidents home.
The college women's choir viii
present its final concert of sacred
music in the First Mennonite church
Sunday evening. Professor Russell
A. Lantz, head of the music depart
ment will direct this concert.
Commencement will be held Mon
day morning, May 10, at the FRS
Mennonite church. Commencement
speaker will be DIR. Elmer E. S
Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Hart
ford Theological Seminary, Hartford
| Conn.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

Another announcement has been
received by local parents that their
son overseas has made plans to
marry one of the gals from sunny
France.
Orange township will give a BAN
quet for their returned soldiers in
the near future at the Orange Center
house.
Clay Van Meter writes from
France that he will soon receive
orders to sail for the good old U. S.
A.
DR.. and Mrs. VI. D. Soash who
recently returned to Ohio from
California where he was stationed
in the Army hospital at Camp Kear-
ney were in Bluffton looking for
a residence. The doctor expects to
resume his practise here in few
weeks.
Huber Jennings has received his
discharge from Camp Sherman.
Liberty bonds are used the same
as cash and a good many stores are
advertising that these bonds will be
accepted on any purchases.
Ezra Jackson returned home
having received his discharge from
Camp Sherman. The young man
wears the gold chevron for six
months over seas service. He was
member of Co. M. 120th Infantry
of the goth Division.
Adrian Rettig of Jenera who re-
Gently returned from France where
he took part in several battles plans
to enlist and return to the above
named place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

picking of the crop has to be rushed.
When the baskets are full they are
emptied at special place, the differ
ent skins and pulp are removed and
the beans dried either by sun or
artifcially.
They are then graded by size and
ready for the market. When the
beans have reached this stage they
are known as green coffee and the
work of the planter is over. The
green coffee is then packed in heavy
sacks, transported to the nearest
seaport and shipped to the coffee
drinking regions of the world.
More than any other basic staple,
perhaps, coffee has suffered the ups
and downs of economic upheavals.
To help stabilize it's price, great
quantities of this product were. some
times destroyed.
In 1886 the coffee producing coun-
tries of the continent feeling the need
for joint action got together in Bo-
gaia, Colombia at the First Coffee
Conference.
The Pan American Coffee Bureau,
permanent agency inaugurated in
1887, had as its principal object the
putting in practice of the agreements
taken at the Bogota and following
Coffee Conferences.
Finally, on November %, 1910, the
Inter-American Coffee Agreement pre-
pared by the Inter-American Finan-
cial and Economic Advisory Commit
tee, was signed in Washington by the
representatives of the coffee -produc-
ing countries of the continent and
the United States.
The agreement has as it's purpose
the assuring of fair commercial con-
ditions to both producers and con-
sumers both in and out of the West
ern Hemisphere.
The war and the shipping shortage
and subsequent submarine campaign
in Caribbean and South American
waters produced a state of emer-
gency which led, in the United
States, to rationing a number of
commodities among which was coffee.
The fact that this drink is once
more ration-free does not mean that
its producers are not facing great
difficulties due to the war. They are,
however, looking forward to the
brighter future.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

called Thursday afternoon on Mrs.
Ernest Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hilty were
Sunday evening callers of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Schaublin and daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Badertscher
and sons, Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Zim-
norman and daughters, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dwight Frantz and daughters, Will
mer Badertscher and Walter Bader-
tscher of Pittsburgh were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Badertscher. Afternoon callers were
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Huber.
Mrs. Charles Fridley and Mrs..
Sam Kohler and daughter spent Sat-
urday evening at the Memo Geiger
home.
Mrs. Katie Lory and Mrs. jose
phine Moser were Wednesday even
ing supper guests at the Amos and
Weldon Luginbuhl home.
DR.. Anita Green of Toledo called
at the Henry Green home, Friday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and
! son Melvin spent Wednesday even
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Brice Main
and son Harold.
Mrs. Dwight. Frantz and daughters
and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman and
daughters called on Mrs. Wilmer
Badertscher at the Glen Hathaway
home, Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Basinger, Mr..
and Mrs. Kenneth Gratz and son
Kenny Leroy of Lima, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Maidlow and daughter Eli
leen, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Marquart, Mr..
and Mrs. J. L. Gratz and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilford Gratz called Sunday
afternoon on Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Gratz.
Mrs. d. H. Strunk is a patient at
the Memorial hospital in Lima where
she underwent an operation last Fri
day.
Carolyn Steiner and Josephine
Augsburger spent Wednesday night
at the Andy Hochstettler home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Creeger and
sons spent Sunday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Green and sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Dillman and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Ba-
singer and family were Sunday din
ner guests of their mother Mrs.
Martha Basinger. Evening callers
were Mrs. Amos Luginbuhl and
Glenna Swick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Memo Burkholder
and Mrs. Menno Geiger called SUM-
day afternoon on Mrs. Sam Kohler
and daughter.
Mrs. Harold Stevens of Sandusky
IS spending this week with her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Amstutz.
Jimmie Green spent the week end
with his grandmother Mrs. C. E.
Green of Uniapolis, Ohio.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
By E.. X. Alban,
Department of Horticulture
Ohio State University

There are several of the leafy
vegetables such as hampala, collards,
kale, and chard which will add va
riety to the home garden. Tampala
is a new introduction, which merits
some consideration, especially in
those gardens where moisture is not
limiting factor.
The other leafy crops will norm
ally give satisfactory yields under
average conditions. Spinach, beet
tops, or turnip tops should also be
included because all of these leafy
crops have high nutrient and vitamin
value.
Probably the most important vege-
table source of protein and fats is
the soybean. Such varieties as
Anwei, Bansei, Funk's Delicious and
others are available and should be
tried this year. Soybean sprouts are
becoming extremely popular. Cul-
tural methods are no different than
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

The Blufton NetOs presents
another IN the series of import
ant but lesser knoCn aspects Of
South America ca-EDIToR
Coffee has been called the domin-
ant factor in the Latin American
economic situation. Not only is it
the common important export of
large number of states, but Brazil
and the United States are respectively
the worlds greatest producer and
principal consumer and buyer of this
commodity. This makes the Western
Hemisphere the world center of both
the coffee production and the coffee
market.
The coffee plant, however, is not
native to the Americas. 1t seems to
have been introduced from Abyssin-
la into Mocha, Arabia, from there
into Ceylon and the East Indies and
subsequently into Java, the West In
dies and South America.
In the beginning the drink was
made of an infusion of the dried hull
and only later did it become the
custom to dry and roast the bear
itself. Coffee was quite popular ir
Europe around the sixteenth century
and was exported to America not
long after that.
In 1858, William Penn purchased
some in New York for his Delaware
settlers, paying S4,68 pound for it
Coffee as a plant, however, seems
only to have been introduced in thu
Western Hemisphere early in tn,
eighteenth century when a specimen
was shipped from France to Mar
Unique.
Shortly afterwards the Dutch sen
some coffee plants to Suranam, Dutcl
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
Mt. Cory Graduates
rs Next ThurSdnY

Mt. Cory High schools 43rd an
nual commencement will be held in
the school auditorium at p. m.
Thursday of next week, with diplo-
mas to be presented to Is GRADUATE
ing seniors at the event.
DR.. Glen C. West, executive secre-
tary of the state department of edu-
cation, Columbus, will be the class
speaker, and diplomas will be pre-
sented by H. d. Carr, president of
the board of education.
Jean Dukes is class valedictorian,
and Pauline Simkins, is salutatorian.
Baccalaureate for the senior class
will be at p. m. next Sunday, with
Rev. Irwin Kaufman, pastor of the
Evangelical church, Mt. Cory, oc-
cupying the pulpit.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
BIUhton In First World War

as ever. At present he is stationed
at little camp just outside Tours,
France.
Bluffton went over the top in the
bond drive and oversubscribed its
quota $4,000 by $4,000. The county
reached its assigned quota of over
$2,000,000.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
Merlin BurkhOlder
In Pacific TUO Years

Private First Class Merlin ID.
Burkholder, son of Mrs. Sarah Burk-
holder of Bluffton, has completed two
years of service with the U. ,.
Army in the South Pacific Area.
A member of an army quarter
master unit now stationed at a base
in the New Hebrides Islands, Burk-
holder was inducted in February,
1941. He trained at Camp Shelby,
Mississippi, prior to leaving for over
seas duty.
He is a graduate of Bluffton High
school and was employed by the
Nickel Plate Railroad before enter
ing the Army.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
TUO Local Men At
Great Lakes Station

Two Bluffton men now are taking
naval indoctrination training at the
u. S. Naval Training Center, Great
Lakes, H., it was announced this
week by the Great Lakes public re-
lations office.
They are Kenneth r. Henry, 26,
husband of Mrs. Evelyn Henry;
and julie G. Basinger, 10, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Basinger, Bluff
ton Rural Route 2.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
May 1, 1919

Marion Koch writes to A. J. Non
namaker from Tours, France, that he
has been in five big drives, that of
Chateau Thierry, Scissors, ST.
Mihiel, Champagne, and the Argon-
ne. He was wounded in the left
wrist but his arm is now as good
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
Ada Sergeant Is
Missing In Action

Staff Sgt. George Derringer, 81,
OF Ada has been missing in action
over Rumania since April 16, accord
ing to word received from the war
department by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ora Derringer.
Sgt. Derringer was a waist gunner
IN a B-24 Liberator bombing plane.
HIS father operates a barber shop
in Ada.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
News Our Grandfa
FrOrr

Under the provision of the act OF
the Ohio Legislature of May 9Th, 1908
all the surviving members of the so
uS.ss1irrel hunters
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

Appearing at services in the De-
fenseless Mennonite church here Sun
day, will be the A-Capella Gospel
Trio of the Defenseless Mennonite
church of Grabill, Indiana.
They will sing at the morning and
evening services, also taking charge
of the children's meeting at 1880
D. m. and assisting in the singspir-
alton at 9 p. m.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

Smo0thS Wrinkles
Poiiteness smooths wrinkles.-Jou-
bert.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11

BUY WORE WAR BONDS.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-07

in 940 During this period their earnings before
taxes increased from S1110000000 to S2,282 100000
But their profits after taxes actually declined from
STAG 900 900 to 00Oand this latter figure may
be reduced because of renegotaton The ID per cent
decline in net profits in light of the $50 per cent
increase in volume during this period is most eff
fectve answer to the charge of profiteering.
Moreover while net profits were thus declining
these companies paid out approximately S13000O0000
in and increased the average salaries of
their employees from $1,000 to 81 700 per year That
excessive profits not being accumulated in the
form of reserves is sometimes charged is indicated
by that the total of these companies
increased only S45OO0oOOO the three-ye period
under consideration.
The fine job done by American industry on the
production line has been widely recognized 1t is
evident from the data cited above that the increase in
earnings resulting from this record volume of produc
ton has been largely recovered by the government
through taxes and renegotation.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-07

Much of the talk about profits has been based
upon. reports that corporate earnings before taxes
have increased from $780, 900 in 1910 to S23 0O0
100000 in 1s43 while profits after Increased
from 81 600 in 1910 to s8500000 last year. Many
persons have jumped the conclusion that the major
part of this increase has been due to profiteerg on
the part of industries.
The National City Bank of New York in its May
Bulletin of Economic Conditions presents inter
esting study which shows that fifty leading manu-
acturers of materials have not participated in
these higher net profits. The net sales and other
revenues $40 100000 for these manufacturers in
l943 were more than $4,000 900 greater than those
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-07
20 YEARS AGO f fHE EMPIRE
JULY 7, 1924

Z,
Council them
dealers the other prohibited
soliciting City traffic parking
machi
Regulations protection including
restricting the OF certain in
specified of three of the principal
herring fishery Fisheries
Cleveland elected Assistant Cashier OF the B. M
of Directors following the
bank Cleveland had
the paying teller and
succeeded l. resigned the Juneau Motors
ONIay Commissioner of Fisheries and at the head
regulations laws
arrive n Seattle
John prospecting
granting prospect for oil
andg n
arrived the Admiral Rogers to spend the
summer in
Weather report High 40; low, Az rain.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-07
NATURALIZATION
HEARINGS MONDAY

The Clerk of the District Court
announces that Monday. July 10, is
naturalization day All who. have
petitions tor citizenship filed and
are eligible to be heard at that
time should be on hand with their
witnesses at least by $50 O'Clock
on Monday.
Those who have passed their ex-
aminations and whose witnesses
have not been examined by the
District Attorney should appear be-
fore him with their witnesses any
time during office hours on Sat-
urday.
Any others who are eligible for
hearing and have not yet been ex-
amined, should go to the Clerks of
flee on Saturday and take their
witnesses.
A person eligible to be heard
Monday is one whose petition has
been filed for 30 days prior to
July 10th.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-07
NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX
In Accordance with Chapter SO,
Session Laws Of Alaska. 1s4s

WHO MUST PAY SCHOOL TAX:
All male and female persons between
81 and SIS years of age must pay
the school tax; female person who
is unemployed and who depends for
her support entirely on her husband
is not required to pay the tax; per-
sons in the active military or naval
service of the United States, paupers,
insane persons and those cared for
by the. Territory or who are perma-
nanently injured, infirm, manned
or crippled are also exempt
WHEN PAYABLE: The tax is pay
able after the first Of January in
each year. 1t must be paid to the
school tax collector upon demand
If no demand is made for payment,
it must, nevertheless, be paid to the
school tax collector or to the Terri
torial Treasurer on or before the
first day of December in each year.
Please remember that no demand
or notice is required to be made or
given; but, as indicated, if such de-
mand is made. the tax must be paid
Immediately to the collector. If
payment is not made, penalty of
$3.50 attaches and both are collect
able by suit.
EMPLOYER M lust FURNISH
LIST OF EMPLOYEES AND PAY
TAX. Whenever requested by the
school tax collector any employer
who has people working for him
who are subject to the payment of
the tax, must furnish list of his
employees together with the age of
each of them to the collector, and
must also pay the tax due from
each of them. When such payment
is made by the employer, the COL
lector must give him a receipt for
each tax paid and the amount
thereof may be deducted from the
employees wages.
PURPOSE FOR WHICH TAX is
LEVIED. This tax is collected to
assist in the education Of the chill
dren of the Territory of Alaska.
Your cooperation is appreciated.
G.. G. BROWN,
Tax Collector Box 1896.
First publication, July /, 1914.
Last publication, July Q, 1914.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-07
Almost Routine
Cincinnati Enquirer

Even the very young among us can recall when a
transatlantic flight a dramatic and dangerous
undertaking, stunt which rated the headlines at
any time So couldn't help thinking about the Byrd
filters and Lindbergh and the others when the Army
Air Transport Command disclosed that in months
time its planes have made 500 crossings of the Atlantic
to the United Kingdom and Africa.
Nor was it stunt--it a regular part of the
Air Transport Command operations. The ATC planes
flew in all varieties of weather Even in wintertime,
the big engned C54s used the difficult but short
route across the North Atlantic to England
To be sure there have been amazing improve
ments in planes and equipment The four engined
cargo planes of the ATC are scarcely to be compared
with the transatlantic planes of yesteryear They
have the speed power navigational aids and safety
equipment to take most of the gamble out of an ocean
hop. 1t is far cry indeed from the puny, high wing
monopanes of IS years ago, with their engines of
perhaps 200 horsepower But even 500 flights in
month is record which, in the parlance really takes
some doing.
Some of us may wonder when the dream of trans
Atlantic freight and passenger traffic by air would
reach full blossom The naturalization of the dream
is not awaiting peace The ATC has brought it true
already as one important phase of getting the war
WOn