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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Hold Union Services
Here Thru Holy Week

Union services will be held thru
Holy week beginning next Sunday, it
is announced by the Bluffton Minis
terial association. DR.. John Yer
steeg, superintendent of Methodist
churches in Lima district will speak
from Sunday thru Wednesday nights.
His addresses will be:
Sunday, Methodist church, MAKE
Up Your Life.
Monday, First Mennonite church,
"On Your Own.
Tuesday, st. Johns Reformed
church, Generous to a Fault.
Wednesday, Methodist church,
"Pay Day..
On Thursday night united COM
munion service will be held at the
First Mennonite church.
Good Friday services will be held
at the Presbyterian church in the
afternoon from 1890 to o'clock.
On Easter Sunday the young peo-
Piles federation will present can
tata at the sunrise service at St
Johns Reformed church at $50
o'clock.
On Easter Sunday evening a union
adult choir will appear in pro-
gram. directed by Mrs. Pearl Mann
All evening services will be held
at 8 o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Victory Gardeners Again At Work
Less Enthusiastic But Far Wiser
"Know-how" Gained in Previous
Seasons Seen in Better Plot
Management
Lessons Learned Will Be Ap.
piled in Fourth Year of
Gardening

Victory gardeners, perhaps a little
less enthusiastic but far wiser than
when they first started welding
rakes and hoes at the outbreak of
war, got their gear into shape and
began work on their fourth year of
wartime gardening during springtime
weather of the last week.
In their first three years of vic
tory gardening Bluffton residents
have learned many lessons, most of
which are applied now in using their
brains to save their backs.
One of the most common mistakes
in the early days of victory garden
ing was in the selection of too large
plot of ground, and only thru ex-
perience did many amateurs learn
that it isn't the size of the garden
as much as the skill of managing it
that produces the best results and
fills the home vegetable cellar in the
fall.
Another lesson learned the hard
way by many was the knowledge
that it isn't the bubbling-over zest
of early spring, evaporating with the
hot days of midsummer, that gets
things done, but rather carefully
mapped plan of work and crop rota-
ton.
Planting early crops that can be
harvested in early summer and fol-
lowed by later maturing vegetables
can go far toward eliminating un-
necessary work, and still produce
the same results that a larger plot
could give.
Three years of gardening have
taught many that the duties of their
regular jobs do not permit much
time for outside activities, and that
it is better to tend a small garden
well than to plant plot too large
for the time they have to spend
on it.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
In New Locations

Don Edie and family have moved
from Pandora to the Willard Frank
hauser property at the intersection
of Route 103 and the county line
east of town.
Ad. Klapp and family have moved
from the Hankish apartments above
the Todd grocery to the Cherry
street property recently purchased
from Mrs. Agnes Warkentin Moore.
Mrs. Moore and family have moved
to Ottawa. Robert Edinger and
family have moved from Arcadia
into the Hankish apartment. Eding-
er is section foreman on the Nickel
Plate railroad.
Harry Hauenstein and family have
moved from the Sam King farm
east of Pandora to the John Hall
farm west of Pandora. The King
farm, owned by Mrs. P. C. Steiner
of Pandora will be operated by her
son Hayden Steiner, formerly in
structor in manual training at Bluff
ton high school.
Mrs. Eva Kohl is occupying an
apartment above the former Helen's
Hat shop in the Mrs. M. NJ. Kibler
building.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Red Cross War Fund Drive To Raise
$4,000 At S2,296 Mark This Week

Buttons drive to raise $4,000 in
the annual Red Cross War Fund
campaign was nearing the $1,000
mark this week, according to a re-
port made by Woodrow Little, chair
man of the local solicitation.
Reports of 85 of 81 solicitors
showed a total of s2,210 raised SO
far in house-to-house solicitation.
An additional $50 is reported by
members of the Lions club in the
solicitation of business firms, organ
izations and industries, with final
report from that source expected by
the close of the week.
Confidence that the towns goal of
$4,000 will be reached was expressed
by Chairman Little. He is assisted
in conducting the drive by Mrs. J.
S. Steiner, co-chairman.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
DEFERMENT GIVEN
BLUFETON MAN IN
APPEAL A! DECISIONS
Local Boards Classification of
Registrants Reversed i'm
Only One Appeal
Seven Other Registrants Re-
main in Class Ia, Includ-
ing Bluffton Man

Only one of eight appealed la
draft classifications rated deferment
in appeal decisions announced this
week by Allen County Draft Board
No. 3, which has jurisdiction over
all of rural Allen county, including
Bluffton and Richland township.
Gerald d. Crawfis, of Bluffton, re-
eeived the deferment in the only APP
peal Board reversal of the Local
Boards classification, it was an
nounced.
A classification of "a was granted
on an appeal by c. F. Niswander,
employer of the registrant.
Another Bluffton man, Harold
Crawfs, was retained in Class IA
by the Appeal Board. He had been
classified IA by the Local Board.
Other decisions announced by the
board were:
Winford Desmond Bell, Spencer
vile. Classified in Class Ia by
Local Board. Lima Tank Depot ap-
pealed. Classification of IA upheld
by the Board of Appeals.
Elmer Isaac Ramga, st. Marys.
Classified in Class la by Local
Board. The Goodyear Tire & Rub
Der Co. appealed. Classification of
IA upheld by the Knightstown, In
diana, Board of Appeals.
Frederick Lawrence John, Elida.
Classified in Glass la by Local
Board. w. C. Hansbarger, appealed.
Classification of la upheld by the
Board of Appeals.
Jack Leroy Smith, Dayton, Ohio.
Classified in Class la by Local
Board. Registrant appealed. Class
ifcation of IA upheld by the Board
of Appeals.
William Albert Roeder, Spencer
vile. Classified in Class la by Lo-
cal Board Lima Tank Depot ap-
pealed Cfassifcatfon Of IA upheld
by the Board of Appeals. This clas-
sification was appealed to the Presi-
dent. Presidential classification, IA.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22

Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Amstutz of
North Main street will observe their
Golden wedding anniversary Sun
day. A basket dinner will be held
at noon for the near relatives fol-
lowed by open house from 2 to 5
O'Clock in the afternoon at the Noah
Basinger home on South Lawn ave-
nue..
Mr.. Amstutz, 10 and his wife, ",
are pioneer Bluffton residents. They
were married March 27, 1895.
Their seven children are: Harry
-Amstutz, Pueblo, Colorado, and Ray
mond Amstutz at home; Mrs. Estella
Mahrenholz, Seattle, Wash; Mrs.
Pauline Hitz and Mrs. Edith Schaff-
ter, Chicago; Mrs. Helen Robinson,
Cleveland and Mrs. Josephine Main
of Ada. They also have 10 grand
children and one great grandchild.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22

Pvt. James Stonehill, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Swan Stonehill, of East
Elm street, reported missing in ac-
tion on the German front on Decem-
Der IT, is in a prison camp in Ger
many, his parents learned Sunday.
Notification that Pvt. Stonehill was
a prisoner of the Germans first came
in telegram from the War Depart
ment, which had been advised of that
fact by the International Red Cross.
On Tuesday, his parents received
a card written by him on January
16 in the prison camp. He told them
that he was alive and well in an
undisclosed location.
Pvt. Stonehill was inducted into
the Army on January s of last year,
and in October was sent overseas.
He was graduated from Bluffton
High school in the class of 1943.
His parents were notified on jan
uary IT that he had been missing in
action since Dec. II, dating back to
the time of the German breakthru
in Belgium
Pvt. Stonehill is the second Bluff
ton youth to be taken prisoner of
war recently. Last week Mr.. and
Mrs. Levi Althaus west of Bluffton
were notified that their son Pfc.
Ralph Althaus was in a German
prison camp.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Operetta At High
School On Frid0y

An operetta I'm Grandmother's
Garden" will be staged by the Bluff
ton high school chorus in the audi
torium, Friday night at o'clock. A
matinee performance also will be
given on Thursday afternoon at 1880
o'clock.
The production is staged under di-
rection of Miss Harriet Brate, in
structor in public school music.
Principals appearing in the cast
are: Jean Ann Steinman, Ray Follas,
Helen Burkholder, Malcolm Basinger,
Sarah Amstutz, Paul Reichenbach.
jeanne Harmon, Jean Ann Burcky.
Marilyn Stratton, Jean Burkholder.
Marilyn Fett, Joan Burkholder, Mary
Bauman, Wanda Tschiegg, Imogene
Wenger and Alice Jean Bixei.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
TOWN may SUPPLY
FIRE PROTECTION
THRU0T DISTRICT
All of Nearby District But I'm
ion Twp. May Come Under
New Arrangement
Beaverdam Shows Interest in
Contract; Richland Town
ship Accepts

After delivery of Buttons new
fire truck-pumper this spring, the
municipality may have the respon-
sibility of providing rural fire pro-
lection for all of the rural area
within an eight-mile radius of here,
except for Union township, north of
town, Mayor w. A. Howe said fol-
lowing a meeting of the council,
Monday night.
Expanding interest in Buttons
proposal to add rural fire protection
as regular part Of its service was
evidenced in appearance at the
council meeting of delegation from
the Beaverdam village to inquire
into details of the arrangement.
Richland township has completed
negotiations with the town for fire
protection at a flat rate of $3.50 per
year, and Orange township trustees
have signifed that they are ready to
complete arrangements for the
service on a similar basis.
SIPS Annual Fee
Cost of fire protection to Beaver
dam would be $125 annually, it was
explained at Mondays meeting with
o. Z. Bowers, president, Carrie Cook
a member and Ruth Durkee, clerk,
of the Beaverdam council who con-
ferred here with the Bluffton council.
With Richland and Orange town
ships and Beaverdam participating
in the fire protection setup, Bluffton
would receive total of $625 each
year. 1t was pointed out this would
barely cover the outside areas
proportionate share of the cost of
operating and maintaining the equip
ment in an average year, without
contributing to its original purchase
price.
In past years, the town has
charged a nominal fiat rate of $2E
for every call outside the corpora.
ton, but inasmuch as there was nc
agreement for any specific party tC
be responsible for payment REIN
bursement for such runs often wa.
not forthcoming.
Buttons new fire truck, il
scheduled for delivery this spring
will have a 400-gallon booster tanI
filled with water, which would b.
available as soon as the equipmen
arrives at the fire, thereby fittin,
it for rural fire fighting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Emphasis in Women's Clothing
on Friyoioty and Color
This Spring
Heavy Early Buying Depletes
Stocks i'm Women's Wear
ing Apparel

Bluffton folks are dressing up for
Easter this year in a manner that
will make She style parade the gayest
and most colorful since the start of
war. Warm weather of the past
week has added to the Eastern holi-
day air.
Clothing sales have jumped ap-
proximately so per cent since the
Easter shopping rush began, and re-
tail store authorities are predicting
that the amount spent for the
spring fashion parade will top the
record 1929 figure.
Women are buying the more frivo-
lous items, with emphasis on gay
colors and feminity, sales clerks say.
FRIVOLOUS HATS
Hats, more frivolous than usual,
are an evidence of the trend. AL
most all of them have wells and flow
ers, adding to the cost, but with
money plentiful few questions are
raised about the amount required for
the Easter purchase.
Local retailers said the first of the
week that the problem is not one Of
attracting customers, but rather OBJ
tanning merchandise. Stocks in many
lines of wearing apparel are ex-
hausted, they said, with requirements
uncertain, while selections are low
in others.
With lot of money in circulation
and only few things to spend it
on, the family budget will allow more
expenditures in the purchase of
Easter clothing this spring.
No BUDGETING Now
In pre-war days, the Easter budget
had to be planned in relation to
other springtime expeditures, which
often included the purchase of new
car. Now automobiles are not avail
able, and a plentiful supply of ready
cash cannot even go into operating
the old family bus because of the
rigid driving restrictions imposed by
gasoline and tire rationing.
Families who in other years might
have planned to put their money into
new house count that expenditure
out now. New homes cannot be
built and many persons don't want
to buy any old type structure, pre-
ferring to wait until a modern res
idence can be constructed.
Spending for Easter clothing,
however, apparently is coming from
money received in current wages and
salaries. War bonds are not being
cashed to pay for the Easter buying
splurge, is evidence that the serious
business of winning and financing
the war still remains in the minds of
area residents.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Spring Arrives Cold, Damp And
Chilly AS Warm Spell Vanishes

Spring, cold, damp and chilly, ar
rived officially Tuesday night at 6:3s
o'clock followed later in the night by
driving rain which effectually re-
moved all vestiges of warm weather
of the past week and sent the ther-
mometer down to the upper thirties.
The cold snap, however, is not un-
usual for this time of year, weather
records indicate. They disclose that
in only four years during the last
go years has it failed to snow in
April.
Average date of the last killing
frost since 1871 is April % and the
average light frost for the same
period is May IA. The average date
for the last snow of the season is
April Is.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
BluftOn Woman viii
Sail Friday For Syria

Barbara Joyce Hauenstein will
sail Friday from New York for
Beirut, Syria, to become teacher
in a girls school operated by the
foreign mission board of the Presby-
terian church.
Miss Hauenstein, accompanied by
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Hauenstein of Campus drive left
Sunday evening for New York pre-
paratory to sailing.
She will go direct to Alexandria,
Egypt, and from there to Beirut.
Her first year abroad win be
spent in Jerusalem studying the
Arabian language. Altho classes in
the school are conducted in English
the language of the country is
Arabic of which teachers are re-
quired to acquire a speaking knowl-
edge.
The girls school was formerly
part of the American University of
Beirut, which latter was taken over
by the Syrian government several
years ago.
For the past three years Miss
Hauenstein has been an instructor at
southern mountain school operated
by the Presbyterian mission board at
Sunset Gap, Tennessee.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
EGGS FOR EASTER
PLENTIFUL HERE
and PRICE IS RIGHT
Situation i'm Contrast to 1914
When Oversupply Flooded
Local Market
Eggs Bring 80 Cents Dozen in
Stores This Spring; 29c
Last Year

Plenty of eggs will be available
for Easter in Button this year, but
prices will be 10 cents a dozen high
er than in 1914 when an oversupply
dropped the market to the lowest
level in recent years.
Farmers are getting 80 cents a
dozen for quality eggs this year and
the retail price is 80 cents, in con-
trast to the situation which prevail
ed last spring when the producer
received % cents and stores were
selling eggs for 20 cents.
Demand is especially good at
present because of the usual Easter
upswing and demand for Matching
eggs, but warmer weather of the
last week has helped increase the
supply and no shortage. is anticipat-
ed. Prices thru the Easter season
are expected to remain steady, with
little fiuctuation in either direction.
This years market price is about
the same as that of two seasons ago
when the retail price was 40 cents
dozen, and is in marked contras,
to the situation prevailing in 1892
at the depth of the depression when
farmers received nine cents a dozen
for eggs.
Low Price In 1914
The market situation at Easter
last spring was the worst since
depression days for the farmer, for
with prevailing high prices for feed
return of % cents per dozen net
ted the producer no more money
than nine cents in 1882.
Fewer eggs are being produced
this spring than last year when
markets were glutted and for several
weeks the producer found it impos-
sible to sell his products. Also, more
eggs are being eaten, because of
increased stringency of meat ration
ing bringing the substitution of
eggs as the principal item on many
menus.
Housewives favor eggs as meat
substitute, for they are a valuable
source of proteins, iron and vitamins
A, B and d. They also lend them
selves readily to many forms OF
cooking skill, and in addition to
serving as the principal dish for a
meal can be used as tasty touches
| for other dishes.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Robert BurkhOlder
Gets Honor Rating

Robert Burkholder, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey H. Burkholder, of west
of Bluffton, was honored last week
by selection as honor man of his
company at the U. S. Naval Train
ing Center, Sampson, N. Y.
The Bluffton youth will complete
his boot training this week and is
expected home on a furlough the
latter part of the week.
He graduated from Bluffton High
school in the class of 1914, and was
star athlete during his four years
in school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Births


The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Johnson, Bluff
ton, girl, Rae Ann, this Wednes-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Brice Henry, Jr.,
Lima, boy, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orlin Which, Rawson,
boy, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cieland Amstutz,
Pandora, girl, Joyce Eileen, Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Elliott,
Bluffton, a girl, Joyce Irene, last
Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Council To Aid In
Harmon Field Upkeep

A grant of $50 to be used in the
upkeep and maintenance of Harmon
field, Buttons summer recreation
center, was made Monday night by
the town council.
This sum will be turned over to
the board of education which holds
title to the field. The board at its
meeting last week authorized an ex-
penditure of $500 to pay for the
services of caretaker this sum-
mer.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Bluffton Easter Parade This Year
Will Be Gayest Since Start Of War
OUerSeas Veteran
Home On FurIOugh

Cpl. Harold Andrews who has
been in the European war area for
the past Is months is spending 28
day convalescent furlough at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Andrews south of Bluffton. He
arrived here Monday.
At the termination of his furlough
he will take further treatment at a
military hospital in Colorado. He
was previously hospitalized for a
month in England.
Cpl. Andrews has two brothers
overseas, Cpl. Frederick Andrews in
France and Pvt. Robert Andrews in
Germany.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
BIuftOn Man In
English Hospital

Pvt. Omar Welty who was wound
ed in France, February o, has been
transferred from a Paris hospital to
a hospital in England, according to
word received by his wife residing
south of Bluffton on the Dixie high
way.
Pvt. Welty was wounded in the
back and ribs. He is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Sylvanus Welty of this
place.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
AIRPORT INTEREST
REvIvES AS LINES
SEEK AIR ROUTES
Two Additional Firms File Ap-
plications That Would In
clude Blufft0n
Only Municipality Owned Air
port Can Qualify for Fed
eral Aid

Renewed impetus was given to the
movement to procure municipal air
port here when two applications were
filed the first of the week with the
Civil Aeronautics board in Washing
ton for permission to operate airlines
in Ohio on a route that would take
the planes directly over Bluffton
while flying between Lima and Find
lay.
The applications filed this week are
the latest additions to number seek
ing franchise rights for air routes in
this section.
According to Clayton Bixel who has
been instrumental in the development
of sentiment for an airport here, two
of the firms applying for a franchise
have designated Bluffton as a stop,
providing suitable landing facilities
were supplied. Other proposed lines,
it is believed, would land planes here
if there were adequate airport accom-
modations.
Three Groups Seek Franchise
Three groups at present are endeav-
oring to obtain franchises for the op-
Grafton of airlines thru this district,
and for Bluffton to be listed as one
of the regular stops a municipal air
port answering Civil Aeronautics
Board standards must be established
here.
Additional incentive for the town to
make a decision soon relative to the
airport proposal is the fact that fed
eral funds will be availabl for post
war airport dvelopment If arrange
ments are completed in time.
An engineer representing the Civil
Aeronautics Board in survey here
last fall indicated that Bluffton can
qualify for federal assistance in de-
veloping an airport iftk proper pre-
lliminary steps are taken in securing a
site and putting up buildings.
c. A. B. requirements are for an
air field of at least 80 acres, with a
hangar and facilities for stocking gas
oline and oil. Title must be held by
the municipality to qualify for gov
ernment aid.
Funds Available
With these minimum requirements
met, federal funds will be available
for draining, field lighting and con-
structing runways, it was pointed out.
Dayton and Western Airlines, of
Dayton, was one of the firms filing an
application this week to establish an
airline thru this area. Terminals
would be in Cincinnati and Detroit,
with the route going thru Dayton,
Lima, Findlay and Toledo.
This corporation is owned by three
major inter-city bus companies, one
of which is the Cincinnati and Lake
Erie Transportation Co. which now
operates buses thru Bluffton.
Use second application filed by the
Ohio Air Express Corp, of Columbus,
also wants permission to cover vir-
tually the same route.
The latter firm would use airplanes
only, and the former concern plans
to use both airplanes and helicopters,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Former BIuftOn
Resident Married

Wedding of w. A. (Dean) Hall,
former Bluffton resident now living
in st. Louis to widow of that city
took place in St. Louis, Sunday, ac-
cording to word reviewed here the
first of the week. Hall, who was
reared in Bluffton in the early days
of the town is 83 and his bride is 58.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
In France

Pfc. Karl Alderman has arrived
with an Army unit in France, ac-
cording to word received here. He is
brother of Chas. Alderman, man
ager of the A. & P. store.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Graduates From Navy
Air Technical School

Cpl. Wilhelm Amstutz, Jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Amstutz north
west of Bluffton was graduated last
week from the Naval Air Technical
school at Corpus Christi, Texas, ac-
cording to word received here. He
has since been transferred to the
Naval base at San Diego, Calf.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
WOnlen's Shop Here
Has NelU Gunner

Mrs. Paul Clark has purchased
Helen's Hat Shop, women's accessory
store on South Main street, it was
announced by the former owner, Mrs
Helen Wells Tuesday. The new
owner has already taken possession
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
Will LeaUe Soon For
Coast Guard Service

David Anderson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Anderson of Orange
township has enlisted in the coast
guard and will be called next week
to begin training.