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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-09-05
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Balmer,
Bluffton, a girl, Beth Anita, We'd
nesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Dunlap,
Beaverdam, a boy, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon Deppler,
Bluffton, girl, Shirley Elaine,
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs, Francis Devier,
Bluffton, girl, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Bame, Je-
nera, a boy, Laverne Ray, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Edinger,
Bluffton, a girl, Jean Ann, Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Steinman,
Mt. Cory, a boy, Allen Leroy, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Emans,
Bluffton, a boy, Gregory Dean,
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Bame, Will
Jamestown, girl, Linda Jeanne,
last Wednesday.
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Farmers Fear For Corn Prospects AS
Continued Cool Weather Brings Frost

Bluffton's coldest Labor Day on
record brought frost and low tenn
perature of 36 on Tuesday morning,
as August's unreasonable cool wealth
er continued into September.
No frost damage was reported in
the Bluffton area because of the
extreme dryness of ground and vege-
tation, but farmers are expressing
fears that their corn crop, already
late, may be materially reduced un-
less a turn to warmer weather is
experienced soon.
A killing frost any time during
the first three weeks of September
can ruin many fields, and those who
fear frost damage in continuation
of cool weather experienced here for
nearly a month are hoping that
forecasts of a warm wave the latter
part of this week will bring higher
temperatures.
Respite from mosquitoes, however,
has been one favorable result of
continued low thermometer readings,
but with creeks full of wrigglers
(mosquito larvae) infestation can
be the heaviest of the summer with
a few days of warm weather.
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In move to assure the market
ing of clean milk, rather than
Cleaned" milk, the dairy company
now is conducting an extensive edu-
cational program among its farm
suppliers.
Manager of the Bluffton plant
or the last IL years, Turner said
he has seen continuing improvet
ment in the business volume handled
by the local establishment. Prin-
cipal product of the company is its
ice cream output with a goal of
100000 gallons year expected to
be attained before long.
Importance of dairy operations is
the fact that milk is natures COM
plete food and man has never inn
proved on its value to the human
race, Turner said.
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BLUFFTON YOUTH
FLYING To CHINA
TO TEACH FARMING
Robert Pannabecker Enroute by
Plane This Week TO
Shanghai
To Demonstrate Power-Farming
Methods; 500 Tractors
Purchased

Robert Pannabecker, son of DIR.
and Mrs. S. F. Pannabecker, formerly
of East Kibler street, now living in
Chicago, has been selected to take
part in the first organized effort to
teach the Chinese modern power
farming methods.
The Bluffton youth will leave for
China this week with nine other
young Americans chosen by the
Church of the Brethren Service COM
mittee in cooperation UNRRA as the
nucleus of an instruction staff of so
to teach the Chinese modern agricul-
tural methods.
Eight hundred tractors have been
purchased for extensive farming OPP
erations planned in the reclamation
of 100000 acres of the Yellow river
valley, which were flooded by the
Japanese.
Flying TO Shanghai
Pannabecker is going to China
with the first group of specialists
assigned to the project. The trip
will be started this week with the
unit scheduled to fly from Ontario,
Calf, to Shanghai.
Preliminary to leaving for the ORR
ent, the men completed an intensive
six-weeks training course in one of
Americas finest tractor factories.
The Bluffton youths early years
were spent in China when his par
ents served there as missionaries.
and he has knowledge of the lang
uage and the Chinese people, fitting
him for the selection as one of the
group assigned to the Far East re-
clamation project.
He is scheduled to remain in China
until the end of 1947. ~~s
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NeU Sugar Stamp
Valid This Week

A new sugar stamp, spare stamp
No. 81 in Ration Book ", was vail
dated Sunday for the purchase of
five pounds of sugar thru Decem-
.ber 81 of this year.
At the same time, OPA announced
that the life of the preceding stamp,
No. 40, had been extended to Sep
tember 80 because of inability to
provide adequate sugar to cash ra-
tions during the period that was to
have closed on August 81.
Spare Stamps Nine and Ten, al
lotted for canning sugar, each are
good thru October 81 for five pounds
of canning sugar.
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Total
High School
TlUO From Here Get
OSU Master Degrees

Two Bluffton college graduates
received masters degrees in a class
of $50 graduated Friday at Ohio
State university, Columbus.
r. Emerson Niswander was grad
uated with a degree in master of
science, and Robert Schaeublin re-
ceived a master of arts degree. Both
are graduates of Bluffton High
school.
Niswander will continue his stud
les at the university this fall where
he will also be assistant in the
zoology department. He is a men,
ber of Gamma Sigma Delta honor
scholastic society.
Schaeublin has accepted a posi-
tion as educational program super
visor with the Veterans adninistra-
ton at Dearborn, Michigan.
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Registration To Add Inter
national Flavor To Campus
Atmosphere
Three From Holland; Others
From Syria, Italy, Mexico,
Puerto Rico

Adding an international flavor to
the campus atmosphere, Bluffton col
lege will include in its student body
this fall IL men and women from
six foreign countries.
Enroute to Bluffton for the open
ing of the school term next week
are three students from Holland,
two from Puerto Rico, one from
Syria, one from Mexico, one from
Italy, and four from Canada.
They win be among 150 new stu
dents expected on the campus this
fall, approximately 130 of whom
will be freshmen. Enrolment from
this country will bring students from
IL states, according to pre-registra-
tion figures.
From Holland Bluffton will have
Anetta de Graaf, "a, of Haarlem,
Pieter Verhulst, 81, of Hilversum,
Continued on page 81
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Couple Weds At
Defiance Church

An informal ceremony in the
Zion Lutheran church in Defiance,
Saturday morning at IL o'clock unit
ed in marriage Naomi Irene, daugh-
ter of the late Sylvanus and Mrs.
Welty of Bluffton and Paul E.
Fitsch, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Fritsch of Defiance Rev. w.
HI. Shepfer officiated in double
ring ceremony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Fritsch at
tended the couple and Omar Welty,
a brother, gave away the bride.
She wore for the occasion a brown
suit with brown accessories and cor
sage of yellow roses together with
two clusters of yellow roses in her
hair. t8
Following a wedding dinner at
Bradford's restaurant in Ft. Wayne
the couple left on, honeymoon trip
after which they will make their
home at Sherwood, Ohio.
The bride is a graduate of Bluff
ton high school and the Betty Jean
School of Beauty Culture in Ft.
Wayne. She has lately been EN-
ployed at Vel's Beauty Box in Bluff
ton.
Mr.! Fritsch graduated from Defi-
ance high school. Later he served
for six years in the Navy and is
now employed at the American
Steel Package company's plant in
Defiance.
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u Prof. John Klassen of Bluffton
college together i Mrs. KIassen.
and two children Anita and Karl of
South Jackson street have returned
from three months spent in Can
ada where they were sent by the
Home Mission board of the Men
MONTE General conference to visit
Mennonite settlements during the
past summer.
Most of the time they were in the
provinces of Ontarion and Saskatoon
where colonies of native Russian
Mennonites reside. Mr.. and Mrs.
Klassen are also of that nationality.
During their absence their home
here was occupied by Carl Lehman
and family. Mr.. Lehman, business
manager of the college, recently pur-
chased the Mrs. w. F. Iutzi prop
erty on Grove street where he and
his family moved the past week.
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q Trucks Cover 40 Mile Radius Daily
To Supply Bluffton Plant With Milk

The Page Dairy Company's Bluff
ton plant is served by q fleet of 81
trucks covering an area within a
4O-mile radius of Bluffton, Harry
Turner, manager of thep liant, told
members of the Lions club at din
ner meeting Tuesday night in the
Walnut Grill.
In addition, the local plant re-
ceives $4,000 pounds of milk daily
from a receiving station at Bellefon-
taine, to further boost its supply of
the raw product.
Powder and condensed milk are
processed in the Bluffton plant,
Turner said. One barrel of con-
densed milk is equal to two tons of
whole milk, and 100 pounds of powd-
er represents 1850 pounds of the
liquid, he pointed out.
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Former BLuftOn
Man Is Married

Wedding of Edgar Flack, form7
erly of Bluffton and Mrs. Mary Pin
hicks of Fredericksburg took place
in the latter city, Saturday, accord
ing to an announcement made by
the couple who visited at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Lora of South
Main street, Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Flack roomed at the Lora
home for four years while he was
employed on the Nickel Plate rail-
road section here.
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Summer Projects Closing This
Week After Notably Success
full Season
Plans for Winter Season of
Activities are Outlined by
Committee

With an extensive program of
successful summer achievement near
ing completion, the Bluffton recrea-
tion committee sponsored by the
Business Mems association is point
ing up plans for winter activities of
varied scope for young and old alike.
After decade of neglect, Bluff
toms summer recreation program
was revitalized this year under di-
rection of the committee, and much
of the enthusiasm of bygone years
when the town annually won prizes
for it's activities was recaptured in
three months of intensified work.
Among the milestones passed on
the comeback trail' were establish
ment of a full-time recreational di-
rector at Harmon field; putting back
into condition three. abandoned clay
tennis courts at the field; re-soddine
the badly worn central portion Of
| the football gridiron; and hard-sur
facing the playground at the grade
| school building, and the apron under
the stadium.
MANY CHILDREN AT FIELD
Under the direction of High
School Coach Kent Cotterman, Har
mon field was a beehive of activity
| during the summer. Registered fol
playground activity were 95 child
ren, and the only drawback to ths
well-rounded program was the fact
that new playground equipment fol
tots could not be delivered for the
summer months. Daily average at
tendance was about rs.
The playground will be established
early next spring, however, with it!
location moved from near the rail
road, to a site adjacent to Collegt
avenue, west of the stadium.
Softball play recaptured in &
large measure its popularity of the
"twenties," with IL teams competing
in, three leagues. There were 81
players in midget league; go in tn,
junior league and rs in the senior
league at the field during the sum
mer.
| HARD SURFACING PROJECTS
A stone chip-asphalt surface OF
the grade school grounds will pro
vide playground suitable for use
in inclement weather the yeal
around, and hard surfacing the area
under and in front of the stadium
is an improvement long needed.
Softball play on diamond il
front of the stadium had wreakec
havoc with the football field over
the last several years, but re-sod
ding completed by the committee las
week will give Bluffton one of the
best playing fields in this part Of
the state for the approaching sea
son.
Planned for the winter are activi
ties embracing use of the college anC
high school gymnasiums for basket
ball and volley ball leagues. Sug
gestions for a recreation center fol-
youths are being studied and rol
ler skating project also is under
consideration. Flooding part o.
Harmon field for ice skating is an
other project on the program O
| nronosed winter actiyity
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-09-05
OFFICES OF THREE
FIRMS RANSACKED
ON TUESDAY NIGHT
Fingerprint Experts Here We'd
nesday Busy Obtaining
Clues.
Loot Obtained is Small; Work
of Juveniles, Authorities
Aver.

Finger print experts from the AL
len county sheriff's office were in
Bluffton, Wednesday for the purpose
of obtaining clues to identify per-
petrators who broke into three Bluff
ton establishments Tuesday night.
Places entered were the Bluffton
Milling company, the Farmers Grain
company and the Steinman Lumber
company, all located on Cherry East
Cherry street near the Nickel Plate
railroad.
Offices of all three arms were ran
sacked and contents Of drawers scat
tered over the floor. Loot obtained
by the robbers was small, consisting
of the contents of chewing gum and
candy vending machines in offices of
the Milling company and the Farmers
Grain company and a tan wool jacket
belonging to Miss Emma Dickman
employed in the office of the Stein
man company.
Enter at Rear Window
Entrance to the Milling company's
building was obtained by smashing a
rear window and forcing the inner
door leading to the Office.
At the Farmers Grain company a
rear door was pried open and en-
trance to the Steinman building was
thru a rear window.
The robbery was discovered when
the places opened for business We'd
nesday morning. There was no evi-
dence that safes. of the three firms
had been tampered with. Authori-
ties here attributed the depredations
to juveniles.
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Former College
Students Married

Wedding of Paul Sauder and
Miss Esther Habegger, former Bluff
ton college students, took place in
the Mennonite church in Grabill,
Ind, Sunday of last week.
Sauder, recently discharged from
the Marine corps after active service
in the Pacific area will be associated
with his father in the hatchery
business The couple will live in
Grabill.
Those from Bluffton attending the
wedding included Mr.. and Mrs. Silas
Diller, Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Benroth,
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Niswander, Mr..
and Mrs. Ulrich Amstutz, Miss
M'Della Moon and Mrs. L. L. Ram
seyer.
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Salesman MOIests
Girl In Home Here

Police here are looking for a door
to door magazine salesman who mo-
Tested nine year old girl in her
home here. The incident occurred
in the afternoon when the salesman
was admitted into the house by the
girl who had been left alone mo-
mentarily while her mother was on
an errand in the neighborhood.
The stranger attempted to make
advances to the girl but hastily left
when she resisted. Her mother re-
turned home shortly after the Incl
dent occurred. A description of the
man has been obtained by authori-
ties here.
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Recreation Program OF Past Summer To
Be Revamped And Continued This Winter
R0pp Triplett And
Mary e.. CdsseL We'd

Wedding of Ropp Triplett, young
er son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. Trip
lett of Campus Drive and Miss
Mary Emma Cassel, daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Cassel of
Fairview Village, Pennsylvania, took
place in the Church of the Brethren
at Fairview Village, Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock. The custom of
open church was observed.
Rev. Frank Cassel of Lancaster,
Pa, brother of the bride officiated
in a single ring ceremony before
background of ferns, palms and
lilies.
Miss Bertha DeGray, New York
city harpist and friend of the bride
played the musical prelude and also
the Lohengrin wedding march for
entrance and exit of the bridal
party.
The bride wore white satin dress
with long pointed sleeves. The neck
line was of inlaid marquisette with
lace trim and her floor length veil
was trimmed with lace. She car
ried a shower bouquet of roses and
white delphiniums.
Miss katherine Cassel, maid OF
honor and sister of the bride wore
an aqua taffeta dress with sweet
heart neckline and three-quarter
length sleeves. Her bouquet was yel-
low roses.
Miss Barbara Jean Triplett,
bridesmaid and sister of the bride
groom wore peach taffeta dress
fashioned similar to that of the maid
of honor and carried a bouquet of
pink roses.
Morris Triplett, brother of the
bridegroom was best man and ush-
ers were Warren Weise of Philadel-
| phia, college friend of the bride
groom and Paul Cassel, brother of
the bride. Men of the wedding
party wore white rose boutonnieres.
Following the ceremony a recep-
| tion was held at the home of the
bride after which the couple left on
ten days wedding trip motoring
thru the Adirondack mountain re-
| gion. On their return they will
live at the Triplett farm north
west of Bluffton.
The bride was graduated in 1943
from the University of Cincinnati
School of Nursing. Following her
graduation she was engaged in So
cial work in New York city and
later served for year as an Army
| nurse.
Mr.. Triplett, who was graduated
from Bluffton high school, received
his degree in electrical engineering
in 1912 from the University of Gin
cinnati and will be associated with
his father in the Triplett Electrical
Instrument company. He served
three years in the Army, IL months
of which. were in Europe with the
signal corps and held the rank OF
first lieutenant at the time of his
discharge from the service last
month.
Among those attending the wed
ding were Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Trip
lett, Morris Triplett and Miss Bar,
bara Jean Triplett of Bluffton anc
! Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Vincent anc
family of Ell Paso, Illinois.
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Drivers Licenses
Go On Sale MOnduY

Automobile drivers licenses, re-
newal of which is required by mid
night Sept. 80, will go on sale in
Bluffton next Monday at Montgom-
ery's News Stand
To receive a 1947 license, a 1916
permit must be presented. Fee for
a regular operators license remains
DO cents. Chauffeur's license costs
80 cents.
Applicants for 1947 licenses who
do not have 1916 permit must OBJ
tain temporary instruction permit
and present himself to the State
Highway patrol for examination.
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Couple Is We'd In
Kentucky Ceremony

Miss Jeannine Stewart, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Madison Stewart
of Orange township, became the
bride of Floyd Hartman, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Purl Hartman of near
Bluffton in a ceremony at Greenup,
KY, last Thursday.
Rev. w. H. Muncy of the Metho-
dist church of that place officiated
and attendants were Mr.. and Mrs.
Maurice McClish. The bride wore a
white dress with black accessories.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hartman will live
east of Bluffton where he is en-
gagged in farming.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-09-05
FIOUer ShOW At
Pandora Saturday

The Pandora Garden club will hold
a flower show and bazaar at Pan
dora high school Saturday from 2 to
10 D. m. Dinner table arrange
ments will be judged and summer
miniatures and winter bouquets also
will be on display. Admission free.
The public is invited.
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Thursday Afternoon
Closing Continues

Bluffton stores which were closed
on Thursday afternoon during the
past summer will continue the half
day closing for the coming fall and
winter season, it was announced the
first of the week by officers of the
Bluffton Business Mems association.
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Chds. Hdnkish Sails
EnrOUte To SgriQ

Charles Hankish who left early
last week on a trip to his home
town in Syria sailed Friday from
New York, according to word re-
ceived by his family here. Hankish
is making the trip with party of
three other men from Toledo.
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With Service Men

Cpl. Robert Poe who has been in
Yokahama, Japan. for the past year
is enroute home, according to a
cablegram received by his wife,
Mrs. Frances Jean Poe of Route 2,
Bluffton.
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Scouts To Gather
Waste Paper Here

Bluffton Boy Scout troop No. 81
will gather waste paper Saturday.
Newspapers and magazines in bun
dies on the front porch will be coll
lected by the Scouts in the after
noon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-09-05

Laying houses should be thorough
ly cleaned before the new poultry
flock is installed for the 1946-47 lay
ing season. Hot water and lye solu-
tion can reduce danger Of disease in
Ifection later.
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BLUFFTON SCHOOLS
HAVE ENROLMENT
OF 4S6 THIS fall
Student Registration Drops For
Ninth Time i'm Last Ten
Years.
Grade School Total is Up With
247; High School Has 239
i'm Six Classes.

After reversing a downward trend
In enrolment last fall for the first
time in nine years, Bluffton public
school registration dropped off again
this year, with five fewer pupils en-
rolled than during the 1945-46 term.
Marking the ninth year out of 10
that enrolment has dropped from
that of the preceding fall, Bluffton
grade and high schools had an ag-
gregate of 4S6 students on Tuesday,
the opening day of school. Last falls
frst-day registration was 491.
Principal decrease in enrolment
this year is in junior and senior
high school classes, with 10 fewer
students than last falls mark of
249.
In the first six grades, enrolment
went up for the second consecutive
year, with 247 registered this fall as
compared with 242 in 1945.
Another drop in the upper grades
may be expected next fall, for a
class of 56 seniors will graduate this
year and the sixth grade, which will
advance to junior high school in an
other year, has only Al
Bluffton's downward trend in en-
rollment started in the fall of 1887
when the public schools had $50 stu
dents. This represents 183 pupils
more than the schools have this fall
Top enrolment in the grade school
this fall is in the third grade where
there are so students. In the second
grade there are 40, but first grade
enrolment this fall dropped to 80,
after standing at AZ in 1945.
In the high school this year the
largest enrolment is in the senior
class with 56 pupils. OF these four
are returned war veterans: Harold
Amstutz, Neil Schmidt, Richard New
land and Kenneth Finton.
School enrolment totals were an
nounced Tuesday afternoon by Supt.
Ralph Lanham as follows:
Grade School
Grade Teacher Total
1 Meredith Stepleton 80
2 Mrs. Clayton Murray
and Mrs. Dwight Spayth 49
3 Minerva Hilty and
Mrs. Clayton Murray so
Robert Ewing 40
5 Mrs. Adella Oyer 35
6 Theola Steiner Al
Total 247
High School
Grade Total
32
Freshman At
Sophomore %
Junior 48
Senior Sc
Total 239
Evening star., 1946-02-15
Uncle Roy's Corner
BLADDERWORTS

Thousands of ponds on this con-
tinent are the homes of flesh eat
ing" plants. am thinking of the
so-called "bladderworts."
Bladderworts are common enough
in North America and elsewhere.
but few persons have watched what
they do under the water. A strange
drama of life and death goes on
down there, out of sight of any one
who happens to see these plants
floating about a pond.
There are many kinds of bladder
worts, and they differ somewhat in
life history, but usually their roots
fail to become anchored at the bot
tom and they float around. q
The floating is slow, since the sur
face of pond is quiet. A person
may see them and may suppose they
are in fixed position.
1t is, of course, the custom of most
kinds of plants to draw food from
the soil, but bladderworts have an
other way of getting something to
eat. They have root bladders," "
scores of them growing on single
plant.
Small bristles grow around an
opening in each Of the bladders and