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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-08-10
INSURANCE

Many property owners, after
lire, are finding, out that the
amount OIL their insurance is in
sufficient to cover present re-
placement; costs. Usually this is
because they neglected to add
en0Ggn insurance to meet In in
creased property valUes.
Better check up! IL you need
insurance, call
CHAS. >. lyle
Insurance
Rising Sun. Md.
Telephones 1 & So
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-08-10

Japanese leaders meet to tackle
problems. Chiefly those of subtrac
ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-08-10

Fracno may put a 9-year-old boy
on the Spanish throne. He isn't old
enough to be even commencement
orator.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-08-10

Ration Board Man: "Wh t
wrong with your tires?"
Motirist: "The air is beginning
show through"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-08-10

Readjustments, now considered to
be so much of a problem when the
boys are coming home, didn't seem
to worry the Army particularly when
they went away.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-08-10

If you make mistakes it will be
more to yiur credit to make a new
one each time.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Over Is Tons of Milk Being
Received Daily at Page
Plant Here
Heaviest Production for This
Month i'm Seven Years;
Price Good

Hot weather in its first sustained
assault of the summer is expected to
bring a break in an unusually long
continued season of heavy milk pro-
duction, farm observers pointed out
this week.
The most-favored season for milk
production since 1888, yield from
dairy herds has continued at high
levels until this week.
Ordinarily the amount of milk re-
ceived from cows begins to taper off
the latter part of June, after reach
ing a peak early in the same month.
This years unusually heavy milk
production is attributed to cool
weather and abundant rainfall which
kept pastures in good condition and
provided plenty of grass for dairy
herds.
Rejecting unseasonally heavy pro-
duction, the Bluffton plant of the
Page Dairy Co. is receiving daily
average of some $4,000 pounds of
milk, about 10000 pounds more than
the average volume at this time of
the year, according to Harry Turner,
manager of the plant. The milk,
more than 10 tons a day, comes
from some 900 farmers in this area.
This summers sustained milk pro-
duction is the longest on record in
seven years. Unlike 1888, however
the price of raw milk is considerably
higher. Present base price is $3.50
per hundred, plus a government sub
sidy of 35 cents per hundred and a
production bonus allowed by by the
Page company.
In addition, the volume of milk
handled here is materially greater
than in 1888, rejecting a continuance
in this areas trend toward greater
emphasis on dairying, Turned pointed
out.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
BIG WHEAT CROP
JAMS ELEVATORS;
LACK BOX CARS
Double-NOrmal Yield is Flood
Marketing Facilities
Here
Crop Surpasses Early Esti-
mates; Top Yield 81
Bushels Acre

Bumper wheat crop of the Bluffton
area, which is turning out to be one
of the largest in recent years has
glutted local elevators and farmers
searched, often in vain, for storage
space for the grain.
Scores of farmers in this district
reported that the flood of grain
from the double-normal crops have
found facilities totally inadequate to
take care of the harvest.
Elevator men declare that there is
a huge demand for transportation
throughout the wheat belt and a
poor supply of box cars suitable for
carrying the harvest to terminal
storage bins.
Elevators damned
AS a result of this situation ele-
vators already jammed to the limit
with grain are accepting more only
as freight cars are supplied to en-
able them to load wheat from their
already overtaxed storage bins.
Altho adequate transportation
facilities had been promised elevat-
ors here, the number of cars re-
quired to move the crop has proved
far greater than previously estimat-
ed.
Meanwhile favorable weather for
harvesting has kept grain flowing
from combines and threshing ma
chimes in an uninterrupted stream
making more headaches for elevator
and railroad men while farmers are
filling every available bin on their
farms, dumping the grain on barn
floors and in some cases fitting up
temporary storage facilities.
Yields Uniformly Good
Yields are uniformly good, run.
ming generally from 80 to 40 bushels
per acre. Best yield of the district
was reported Tuesday when Free
Mueller residing north of Blufftof
on the Dixie highway got a yield OF
over 81 bushels per acre. Mueller
marketed 563 bushels from an II
acre field adjoining the Kermit
1Kibele residence.
Despite the large crop the price
is holding steady, being quoted a
$1.56 per bushel, Wednesday morn
ing. Test is generally from 81 t.
SO, slightly under last year which
was exceptionally good.
Altho the major portion of tn,
stand is cut, there remains mucl
threshing to be done and threshint
rings will be busy until well int
next month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
five DISTRICT men
DISCHARGED FROM
AR M Ed SERVICES
Draft Board No. 3 Reports
Honorable Discharges For 81
In First Half of July
Number Discharged From Arm
ed Forces Greater Than July
Induction Call

Five Bluffton area men were
honorably discharged from the arm
ed forces from July to July Is,
according to report released this
week by Draft Board No. 3, which
has jurisdiction of rural Allen county
including Bluffton and Richland
township.
The men from this district were
among 81 released during that
period who presented their discharge
papers to the draft board, as re-
quired by selective service procedure.
Those from here receiving dis
charges in the two weeks period in
clude Ralph E. Augsburger and Ken
meth L. Gable of Bluffton; Marion
E. Downey, Beaverdam; Dwight
Yarger, Beaverdam; and Harold L
Andrews, Route 2, Bluffton.
Discharges for the first half of tn,
month, according to the report, ar,
considerably greater than the mum
Der of men drafted in July by Drafr
Board No. 3.
Only II men were taken into tn,
armed forces in the July call, on,
of the smallest in recent months, il
comparison with 81 discharges foi
only the first half of the month, i
was pointed out.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Hot Weather May Break Unusual
Season Of Heavy Milk Production
Top Quality Oats
Crop In Prospect

One of the best quality oats crops
in recent years is in prospect in the
Bluffton district, it was learned We'd
nesday.
Although none of the crop has yet
been harvested early testing of sam
pies from stands in this area showed
a test of Al, which grain men here
said was extremely high. Average
test for oats is around 30, they stat
ed.
Acreage of oats in this district is
average and a good yield per acre
is anticipated.
Believed to be rejecting prospects
for a bumper crop, price of the grain
slumped on the Bluffton market, be-
ing quoted at 62 cents bushel, We'd
nesday morning. The price week
ago was Toe.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Mother OF BIuftOn
Dentist SuccunlbS

Mrs. Jacob w. Basinger, 90, moth
er of DR.. Evan Basinger, Bluffton
dentist, died at her home in Column
bus Grove, Tuesday night at 1880
o'clock. Death resulted from infrmi-
ties of age and followed a nine days
illness. i-~s.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day from her late home in Columbus
Grove at 2:30 o'clock, fast time, and
at 3 o'clock at the Reformed Men,
MONTE church northwest of Bluffton
of which she was member for 70
years.
Rev. William Rupp of Archbold
will officiate at the services and in
terment will be in the church ceme-
| terry.
Mrs. Basinger, the former Mary
| Neuenschwander, was born in Rich
land township March 10, 1852. She
was a granddaughter of Michael
Neuenschwander IL, first settler in
what is now the Swiss Settlement
northwest of Bluffton. The family
resided on what is now the Harley
Marquart farm.
She was married February 81,
1892 to Jacob w. Basinger who died
September 5, 1924.
Besides her son of this place, she
is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Floyd Myers of Fayette, Ohio.
Also surviving are the following
stepchildren: Rufus Basinger of Pan
dora, DR.. Francis of Bluffton and
Clarence of Columbus Grove; a sis
ter, Mrs. Sarah Basinger of Pan.
dora; seven grandchildren, great
grandchildren; Is step grandchildren
and IA step great grandchildren.
The body was taken to the Stanley
E. Basinger funeral home in Blufftor
and will be returned to her home in
Columbus Grove this Wednesda,
evening.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Filling Station Is
Looted Second Time

For the second time in less than
three weeks thieves broke into the
office of the Hi-Speed filling station
on North Main street operated by
Dick Habegger and looted the cash
register of it's contents.
The latest theft occurred about
daybreak Saturday morning it was
stated by police, between the hours
of Ais a. m, when Habegger ar
rived at the station with a load of
ice and found nothing disturbed and
s o'clock in the morning when he
opened the station for the days busi-
ness found the cash register rified.
The loss is reported to consist of
about $50 in cash, quantity of gas
oline ration stamps and flashlight
batteries.
Entrance to the station was gained
by breaking a panel of the front
door, the same as was done in the
previous robbery three weeks ago.
Assistant prosecutor Clarence
Fischer stated that he believed it to
be the work of a juvenile gang who
have been perpetrating series of
petty thefts between Lima and Find
lay recently.
In the previous robbery perpetrat-
ed the night of July 2, the cash reg
lister was carried off. 1t was later
found lying at the side of the Dixie
highway near Van Buren and re-
turned by the State Highway Patrol
to Habegger.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
PUSH PLANS FOR
.SU M M Err STREET
REPAIR PROGRAM
With Tar And Asphalt Avail
able Street Improvement
Plans Are Made
Resurfacing of Harmon Road
And North Spring Street
viii Be First Projects

With heavy road tar and asphalt
now available for street construction
and repair, Buttons street improve
ment program for the summer was
being mapped this week by muni-
cipal authorities.
Extent of local street improve
ments during the next two months
viii depend principally on how far
available funds will reach in cover
ing the costs of projects under con-
sideration, Mayor w. A. Howe re-
ported.
First on the improvement schedule
will be resurfacing of Harmon road
from Poplar street to the Bentley
road, and of North Spring street
between Elm and Riley streets.
Street patching of considerable ex-
tent also is mapped on College
avenue and Elm street.
Estimates of the cost of the pro-
jects under consideration will be
submitted by the Churchill Con-
struction CO., of Lima, which last
summer resurfaced Main street and
a portion of Cherry street.
Estimates Asked
Data on the extent of the work
required has been prepared by
Mayor Howe and Street Commits
sioner Lee Coon, and submitted to
the Lima contractors for their bid.
Estimates of the cost are expected
to be ready for submission to the
municipal council at its next meet
ing.
Should funds be available, ad-
ditional improvements to other
streets also win be considered as a
part of the summer program, it was
pointed out.
With road tar and asphalt avail
able for the street work, fears which
arose early this summer that mater
ials might not be available for
improvements because of new gov
ernment restrictions appear to have
been groundless.
The only material which cannot
now be obtained is light road oil,
used as a primer coat in the initial
preparation of unpaved roads for
hard surfacing. Only the tar and
asphalt are required where streets
already have a hard surface to
provide a suitable base.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
NeU Clerk To Take
OUer Duties Aug. I

Paul Augsburger newly appointed
clerk of the Board of Public Affairs
will assume the duties of his office
August /, it was announced Tuesday
Augsburger, veteran of two
years in the Pacific war area, sue
ceeds Edgar Hauenstein who re-
signed as clerk of the board after
% years of service.
Beginning next Wednesday when
the new clerk assumes his duties,
the office of the Board of Public
Affairs will be moved from the Hau-
enstein pharmacy temporarily to the
Mayors office The clerk will be at
the mayors office to receive pay
ment of July electric current and
water bills.
The Board of Public Affairs will
open it's permanent office on Vine
street at the rear of the Basinger
furniture store as soon as remodel
ing of the room is completed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Showers Bring Break In Summers
Hottest Spell; Humidity Continues

Showers early Wednesday brought
a moderation of temperature after
the thermometer reached the highest
point of the summer, 96 degrees
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The moderation in temperature,
however, was more theoretical than
real, as there was an increase in
humidity which added to discomfort
of the hot weather and offset any
measure of relief brought by the
rain.
Relief, however, is promised with a
weather forecast of scattered thund-
er showers and cooler Wednesday
night and Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Head Of Ne.U HaUen
Junior Commerce Body

Roland M. Bixler, formerly of
Bluffton, son of Mr.. and Mrs. d. w.
Bixler of West Kibler street, last
week became president of the New
Haven, Conn.,, Junior Chamber of
Commerce, an organization of APP
proximately 425 young men between
the ages of Il and 35.
About 125 of the members are in
the armed services. The rest carry
on a heavy program of civic activi-
ties, such as work with boys, bond
rallies, get-out-the-vote campaigns,
and pop concerts.
Bixler, who is president of J-B-T
instruments, Inc, has attracted wide
attention to the Junior Chamber this
summer by heading the Jay Gee pop
concert committee. A crowd of 5000
to 5000 turned out for the first of
five outdoor concerts in the Yale
Bowl. The programs feature the so
piece New Haven Symphony Orches-
ira anu Vail louio oiio opSA"sAS
guest artists in well-known musical
selections.
National newspaper coverage was
given to the unique mosquito control
for the concerts. The committee OBJ
tanned the use of helicopter and an
experimental supply of the new in
secticide, DDT, as used SO success
fully during the war. The plane
sprayed the huge stadium and sc
acres surrounding from height oi
25 feet. Not mosquito showed ur
for the first concert.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Post Office Job To
Returned Veteran

Edwin Rice, World War II veter-
an, discharged last month, has been
appointed substitute city mail car
rier it was announced Tuesday by
Postmaster Ed Reichenbach. Final
confirmation of Rice's appointment is
expected from Washington within the
next few days, the postmaster said.
Rice, veteran of campaigns in At
rica, Sicily and Italy was returned
to this country last March after
nearly three years overseas service
He and his wife, the former Ethelyn
Oyer are residing for the present
with her mother Mrs. Adella Oyer in
the Hauenstein apartments on North
Main street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
1t. Augsburger With Air Group
Ferrying Home-bound Veterans

task group make the 1250-mile trip
to French Morocco in approximately
six and one-half hours.
Planes used to carry passengers
are stripped Of all combat equipment
and fitted with seats to accommodate
20 passengers and fve-man crew.
1t. Augsburger is a graduate of
Bluffton High school, and a former
student at Ohio State university.
Flying seven combat sorties before
We Day, 1t. Augsburger has re.
ceived the Air Medal, and is author.
lied to wear the distinguished unit
badge and the European-African
Middle East theatre ribbon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Gospel Quartet
Will Appear Here

A women's quartet from Grace
Bible Institute, Omaha, Neb., will
appear in two programs here, it waS
announced the first of the week.
First appearance will be concert
at the Defenseless Mennonite church
on Thursday night at o'clock.
The quartet will also appears at the
Ebenezer Mennonite church Sunday
night at 7:30 o'clock in conjunction
with an address by DIR. c. H. Suckau
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Start Promotion
For Buckeye Lake

Sale of sponsoring memberships
for promotion of, Buckeye lake,
Buttons municipal swimming spot,
will be started this week by the
Lions club and the Community
Sportsmen's club.
Sponsoring memberships, which
carry with them swimming privileges
for the summer are being sold at 81
for adults and 81 for children. Pro-
ceeds from the sale of memberships
go toward development of the lake.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
LACCING POLITICAL
INTEREST seen IN
CAUCUS PICTURE
No Activity Apparent AS Time
Nears For Party Caucuses
This Friday
Situation May Be Same AS That
For Municipal Offices Which
Went Begging

Lack of interest in the November
election, which resulted in no con-
tests for municipal offices and can
collation. of the August primary here,
apparently also is prevalent in Rich
land township.
With Democratic and Republican
caucuses slated for this Friday night
in the Bluffton High School building,
there so far has been no indication
of political activity leading to
candidacy for Richland township OF
Bluffton Board of Education offices
Both caucuses will be held Friday
at $3.50 p. m, with Republicans
meeting in the high school study
room adjoining the library, anc
Democrats gathering in Room 211 in
the old section of the high schoo
building.
Lack of interest in the forthcom
ing caucuses has led to the belief
that township and school boarc
tickets may offer a repetition of the
situation which arose with respect
to municipal nominations, fall elec
tion.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Bumper Yields From Gardens Spur
Record Vegetable Canning In Area
Vegetable Canning Undertaken
To Offset Limited Home Can
ming of Fruit
Custom Canning Popular With
The Housewives To Supple
ment Home Canning

Spurred by unusually productive
gardens favored by good growing
weather and plenty of moisture, an
all-time record for summer canning
of vegetables will be established in
the kitchens of Bluffton area house
wives during July and August.
Early indications are to the effect
that housewives are capitalizing on
the bumper yields from gardens to
offset limited canning of fruit occa-
stoned by the sugar shortage, and as
a hedge against possible shortages of
commercially canned goods next win
ter.
CUSTOM CANNING
Supplementing home canning, many
housewives are turning to custom
canning as a means of increasing
their supply of canned foodstuffs,
conserving ration points and reliev-
ing themselves of the tedious task OF
working over a hot kitchen stove
during the warm days of summer.
! Operators of the Amstutz cannery
north of Bluffton, said that the vol
ume of custom canning handled b!
them so far this year is much larger
than in any other season.
Housewives prepare the fruit anC
vegetables for canning and takt
them to the cannery where they are
placed in tin cans, without ratior
points being required. Principa
items now being canned are peaehe!
and string beans. Last month th'
emphasis was on peas.
CAN SWEET CORN, TOMATOES
Height of the canning season a
the cannery and also in the kitchens
of housewives is expected when tn,
sweet corn and tomato crops ripen
The tomato crop is late, becaus
of late start, but prospects are I'm
usually good and the crop should b
good. Tomatoes require no sugar
only a little salt, and a record mum
Der of cans probably will be il
Bluffton area fruit cellars by fall.
Sufficient labor to handle canning
has been available at the Gamer
this year. Twelve persons are work
ing there now, and the force likel
will be doubled when the peak @
the season arrives next month.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26

Second Lieut.. E. R. Augsburger,
son of Elias Augsburger, of 212 S.
Jackson street, 18th Air Force Fly
ing Fortress navigator, is now serv-
ing with a home-bound task force
carrying Fifth Army combat veter-
ans on the first leg of their home
ward air journey from Europe.
Converted bombers are used in
transporting passengers from an air
field near Naples to Port Lyautey,
French Morocco. There, the passeng-
ers board C-54 transport planes for
the final phase of their trip to this
continent.
The BIT planes in the home-bound
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26

1t. Neil Baumgartner, formerly of
Bluffton was recently dispatched by
plane to Guam where he is instructor
in a radar training school, it was an
nounced this week. 1t. Baumgartner
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lysle
Baumgartner of Mishawaka, Ind,
former Bluffton residents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Three From Here
Enlist In NaUy

Two Bluffton youths and one from
Columbus Grove have enlisted recent
ly at the U. S. Navy recruiting office
in Lima, Chief Fletcher P. Meade
announced this week. They are Rob-
ert E. Gratz, Route 2, Bluffton !;
Donald F. Root, 156 N. Mound street,
and Pleyel D. Fett, Route 2, Colum-
bus Grove.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
LOngsdOrf Is Named
Library Board Head

A. ]. B. Longsdorf, member of the
public library board was named pres
ident for the coming year at re-
organization of the board, Monday
night. He succeeds Edgar Hauen-
stein who resigned the presidency but
will continue as member of that
body.
Other officials elected for the COM
ing year are Mrs. Ralph Stearns vice
president and Leland Diller secre-
tary.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Put. Clarence Jones
Gets Infantry Badge

Pvt. Clarence Jones, son Of Mr.,
and Mrs. c. E. Jones, of Route |,
Bluffton, has received the expert IN
fantryman badge after a rigorous
course in the infantry replacement
training center at Camp Blanding,
Florida.
Before entering the service in
March, 1945, he was employed by the
Page Dairy Co. in Bluffton. He is a
graduate of Mt. Cory High school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-26
Compile Record OF
County Service Mel,

The Allen County Historical So
ciety is compiling record of service
men who have been killed or missing
in action, wounded or prisoner of
war.
In order to make this record as
complete as possible, blanks have
been left at the public library here
and members of families of such
service men are asked to call and fill
them out. The librarian, Miss Ocie
Anderson will then forward the
blanks to the historical society.