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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24

Night Before Christmas" The
daughter of a clergy friend of his
was present, and copied the Doctors
poem which he recited from memory,
sending it the following year to a
New England newspaper where it
was published anonymously.
DR.. Moore was embarrassed upon
seeing it in print and would not at
first claim ownership, but later he
published it in a book of poems.
His poem did much to establish the
physical character of st. Nicholas.
The reindeers, the sleighs, and the
stockings were given greater appeal,
for the popularity of this poem was,
and still is, world wide.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24
Lafayette

The w. S. C. S. of the Methodist
church met at the home of Mrs
Hilda Badertscher, Tuesday nigh
for a gift exchange. Others present
were Mrs. Delma Watt, Mrs. Josie
Hall, Mrs. Irene Inskeep, Mrs. Iva.
lene Urich, Mrs. Inez May, Mrs
Edith Downing, Mrs. die Arnold
Mrs. Fannie Bergman, Mrs. Bess
Brackney, Mrs. Freda Arthur, Mrs
Lillian Plats, Mrs. Caddie Googin
Mrs. Martha Patterson, Mrs. Del
Baertsche, Mrs. Mildred Carey, Mrs
Daisy Ludwig, Mrs. Lois Hall, Mrs
Ethel Helser, Mrs. Laura Biteman.
A number of young people met al
the home of Miss jeanette Ballingel
for a gift exchange Tuesday even.
ing.
Mrs. Bertha Desenberg and Miss
Lillian Desenberg were Saturday
evening callers of Mr.. and Mrs. Ross
Moore, of Ada.
Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Rayche
Rex, Mrs. Lois Hall, Mrs. Josie Hal
and Mrs. Walter Klingler attended
Garden Club at the home of Mrs
Elsie Bierly.
The members of the young married
peoples class of the County Line
church met at the home of Mr.. anc
Mrs. Dorance Thompson Tuesday
night for a covered dish dinner ane
gift exchange. Present were Rev
and Mrs. J. L. Guthrie, Mr.. William
Guthrie, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Rayl anc
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Keller anc
children, Mrs. Susie Anspach, Mrs
Harvey Welty, Mrs. Zimmerman, Mr.
! and Mrs. Lester Young, Mr.. and Mrs
Howard Benroth, Mrs. Mildred
Binkley, Mrs. Gilbert Elwood anc
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Long
and family, Mrs. Adeline Doernberg
Mr.. and Mrs. Blake Guthrie, Norman
Guthrie, Miss Jennie Roberts, Mr.
and Mrs. Adrian Meyer and children
Mrs. Loretta Clum spent Thursday
night with her granddaughter, Mrs
Mary Johnson of Lima.
Mrs. Martha Coates entertained
the members of the Ladies Aio
Society of the Zion's Lutheran
church Thursday. Present were
Mrs. Emma Adams, Mrs. Irma Guy
Mrs. Grace Packer, Mrs. Martha
Wesphal, Mrs. Neva Fisher, Mrs
Bess Clum, Mrs. Retta Clum, Mrs
Vera Hawk, Mrs. Mabel Hawk, Mrs
Florence Cloore, Nancy Packer anc
Donald Guy.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24
Onns FAVOR SNOW

years.
ODDS FAVOR SNOW
On the basis of weather conditions
of the last 80 years, however, the
odds are slightly in favor of a
white Yuletide. Over the 35-year
span there have been 20 Christmas
Days with snow and 10 green.
Heaviest snowfall in the 35-year
span. was in 1916 when a roaring
blizzard brought a 12-inch blanket
of snow. In 1885 Bluffton mad
eight inches of snow, the heaviest in
recent years, altho there were seven
inches of snow in 1914.
The all-time warm weather record
for Christmas here was in 1882
when the thermometer recorded a
mark of 81 degrees shortly before
noon.
80 YEAR RECORD
Bluffton's 35-year record of Christ
mas weather is as follows:
1911, no snow; 1912, no snow
1918, trace of snow; 1914, seven
inches; 1914, three inches; 1916, IL
inches; 1917, seven inches; 1918
trace of snow; 1919, one inch; 1920
no snow; 1921, no snow; 1922, trace
of snow; 1923, no snow; 1924, five
inches, 1925, one inch.
1926, three inches; 1927, no snow
1923, one inch; 1929, five inches
1880, no snow; 1881, no snow; 1882
no snow; 1888, no snow; 1884, three
inches; 1885, eight inches; 1886, nj
snow; 1887, no snow; 1888, no snow
1889, trace of snow; 1910, no snow
1941, no snow; 1912, two inches
1943, no snow; 1914, seven inches
1945, two inches.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24

setting for its festive Yuletide scene,
altho snowfall in 1916 did not come
until Christmas afternoon.
Snowfall on Christmas in 1914
and 1945, however, reversed a trend
in recent years, which has given us
a white holiday in only three of 10
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24
Settlement Notice

Anyone having bills against Rich
land township, please. present same
to any of the trustees or the clerk
before 8 p. m, Saturday, December
%, 1916.
be N. w. Rasinger, Clerk
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24
Carl L. Amstutz's Muskrat Pelt
Earns Award for PeH Handling,
IN Sears 18th National Fur .Sholu

This third feature Is the real reason
for Sears 18th National Raw Fur Show
with 942 Cash awards, totaling
$7,590.00.
Last season, Trapper Forrest
Slabaugh, of Ligonier, Indiana, won
the big 81 100000 First Cash Award on
his skillfully handled mink pelt. Just
think how handy an extra 100000
cash would be for you, this yearl = !.
Get In-It's Easy
Every fur you ship to Sears, during the
term of the Fur Show, is automatically
considered for awards.
Only the handling of pelts counts;
not the kind of fur, not its value.
This season, why not try for some
big ertrd money? Remember, everybody
has an equal chance. You have every
thing to gain-nothing to lose.
When your furs are ready, ship them
to Sears, Roebuck and Co., Raw Fur
Marketing Service at the nearest of
these points: Chicago, Philadelphia,
Memphis, Dallas, Kansas City or
Seattle. Thousands of trappers have
earned awards. YOU CAN, tool
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24
Read How You, Too, May
Win an Award as High
as ST, 100000 This Year! !!

Proving again that "better pelt
handling pays" this local trapper got
an extra $500 in cash-one of the
Daily Awards in Sears 18th National
Fur Show besides, a chance to
share in the big m25or awards!
What this trapper did, you too can
do whether CT not you sell your furs
through Sezrs Raw Fur Marketing
Service. Fcf Sears Fur Show offers, this
season, "a total of 942 different cash
awards, including the First Award of
81 900 90 for the best handled pelt of all.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24
Hopes Rise For White
Xmas In Area

Concluded from page II
after the holidays.
For the last two preceding years,
the Bluffton area has had white
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24

In 1845 the first Christmas card
was born because an English noble
man did not have time to write
Christmas letters.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-24

First, every award is in addition to the
cash Sears get you for your pelts.
Second, Sears can be depended on to
obtain for you top prices.
Third, even II you don't win an
award, careful handling enhances the
value OF your furs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-10

Canadian uinHers bond stamp prizes aspassa
Canadian Bonds and Saving Ssasps
Entries for the be postrarked before mid.
night, April l. 1916.
Entries will judged for originality suitability aptness
Of thought Judges decisions win be final Duplicate prizes
viii be awarded ties No entries will b returned
Enes contents the ideas therein become the property
oF The Quaker Oats Company. #.8.
Il All winners win b notified BY Complete winners
viii ~ available about May l. 1876. Please send self
addressed, stamped envslope for list.
Any resident Of ths y. 81 the Dominion of canada
may cufnpete sxcept employees of The Qlak1r Oats
Company their sdvertising agencies and tsir fari Con
test suhjet Id ai federal And Dominion rsSAtions
Evening star., 1946-02-18
Ayres' New Picture Contract
Has Novel Special Clauses
By Joy Cormody

Lew Ayres the movie distinguished himself the United
Army Medical Corps after creating sensation by refusing
Hollywood
which stands equally firm his philosophy
His deal with International specifies
Evening star., 1946-02-18
YvOnne Misses a Plane Ride

There was strong rumor In
town last week that Sam Goldwyn
was retiring from picture-making.
I checked and found that Sam was
not giving up his profitable toll.
But he is planning to take life
easier and is forming an executive
group of five to take over some
oSnthe work of his Samuel Goldwyn
Productions. It's a wise boy who
eases up as the, years creep up.
Ronald Colman Is refusing a bid
Of half a million dollars for his
Montecito real estate. Ronnie is
one of really rich movie actors.
He made most of his millions in
the days of light income tax. The
William Holdens brenda MarshalD
expect the new baby in April. They
want twins.
Red Skeltoneand his wife, Georgia,
finally have found place to live
after five months of moving from
one hotel to another. II own three
apartment houses" says Red, land
haven't been able to get into one
of them" Carole Lands is packing
all her belongings here and is ship
ping them to New York. Her hus-
band, Horace Schmidlapp. has de-
cided against California as a per-
manent abode. His work is in New
York" says Carole, land that's
where we will live except when I
Evening star., 1946-02-18

Miss Bennett, however, will play
the leading feminine role.
X
Arthur Godfrey's debut as an actor
in Three to Make Ready" has about
it the distinction that Mr.. G. gets
to sing what is easily the best tune
in the big musical which stars Ray
Bolger. "A Lovely Lazy Kind of
Day" is the title of the number
which sounds as if it were made to
order for WTOP's longtime morn
ing man.
1t not only sounds as if it were
written for him, it actually was.
Another highly praised performer
in the same production also halls
from Washington. That would be
Bibi Osterwald whose way with a
song first was exhibited around town
in such local theatrical groups as
those at the Roadside and CATHOLIC
University Theaters. Her first Broad
way hit was in Sing Out, Sweet
Land" last years Theater Guild
musical which had its birth on the
university theater's stage.
Evening star., 1946-02-18
By SheiIoh Grahom
HOLLYWOOD.

Yvonne de Carlo did not make the
trip with Howard Hughes in his Con-
stellation plane load of stars because
of Maria Montez's baby. Yvonne's S
leading man, Jean Pierre Aumont,
in "Fandango," originally titled
"Sheherezade" and then "Shahra-
zad" was given time off to be with
Maria and their baby. Maria Chris
tina. Which means that Yvonne
could not be spared for the trip
with Mr.. Hughes, who is still number
one man in her life.
Vera Ellen will divorce Robert
Hightower in local courts as soon
as she finishes her role in Three
Little Girls in Blue" The couple
have been estranged for several years
but Vera Ellen could not divorce him
before because Bob was in the Army
overseas.
June Haver had been fooling
every one with dates with dentist
DR.. Dusick and before that with
Victor Mature. She has just re-
ceived word from the boy she loves,
Farley Granger, and he's coming
home soon from the Pacific. And
then you can expect an early mar
riage for the former Hollywood actor
and the pretty blond actress.
William Eythe says that his break
with Songstress Margaret Whiting
is official. Dick Haynes says that
new rumors of marital discord are
untrue. "Everytime my wife (Jo-
anne) goes out Of town, I'm told
that we are getting a divorce. But
she merely is resting up at Palm
Springs before starting her movie
job with Howard Hawks"
y
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis
are feuding Joan says she went up
to Bette's table in the Warner S
green room and said. Hello" but
Bette did not reply. Bette probably
was thinking of something else.
But of such stuff are battles made.
Enrol Flynn's former yacht, "Siroc-
CO." is wanted by an Eastern syndi-
cate, which plans to use it as a
museum.
Evening star., 1946-02-18

only with Humphrey Bogart. She's
learning that In movies the story
matters more than the leading man.
After all she and Boyer were IN
Confidential Agent" and that
didn't help her.
John Huston is back in town and
back at Warmers. There isn't q
chance that his former romance
with Olivia de Havilland will be
renewed. She is too busy with her
handsome 1t. Joseph McKeon.
Sydney Greenstreet's housekeeper,
Janet Murdoch gets a second acting
role with her boss In "A Very Rich
Man" She plays a filling station
owner. She now Is paying a maid
to do housework for Mr.. Green
street.
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Evening star., 1946-02-18
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National - THE Desert Song:
$50 pm.
Capitol up Goes Maisie": II
am, lao, 4:25. ITO and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: los, $50, 6:35 and
9:20 pm.
Columbia THE Harvey Girls:
II am, /, 3:05, Sis, 7:25 and 9:35
pm.
Earle my Reputation: 10:45
am, 1, 3:15, 5:25, TAO and 9:55 pm.
Hippodrome-"My Name Is Julia
Ross: 2, $40, 4:50, $50, $40 and
$50 pm.
Keith's-"Scarlet Street.: IL, 2:25,
4:55, 7:20 and Gas pm.
Little-"The Last Chance: Ills
am, lis, 1920, $50, 7:25 and 9:35
pm.
Metropolitan -" "Cornered":: 11:2o
am, 1:25, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and GAS
pm.
Palace-"Spellbound":: 1890 am,
12:40, $50, sos, tbs and $50 pm
Pix-"Miracle of Morgan's Creek: {:
$3.50, 6:45 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1946-02-18
BACKACHE,
LEG PAINS MAY
BE DANGER SIGN
OF Tired kidneys

II backache and leg pains are making you
ing about them. Nature may be warning
you that your kidneys need attention.
The kidneys are Natures chief way of
taking excess acids and poisonous waste
out of the blood. They help most people
eliminate about pints day.
If the Is miles of kidney tubes and filters
don't work well, poisonous waste matter
stays in the blood. These poisons may start
nagging backaches, rheumatic pains, leg
pains, loss of pep and energy. getting up
nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes,
headaches and dizziness.
Don't wait Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills. a stimulant diuretic, used successfully
by millions for over 40 years. Doan's give
kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from
your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
Evening star., 1946-02-18

Incidentally, his return in THE
Dark Mirror" with Olivia De Havil-
land, finds Ayres in somewhat the
same position that he left Holly
wood. He is playing young doctor,
but not Kildare.
Ayres' war service with it's record
Of distinguished service under fire
as a Medical Corps noncom is re-
garded universally as satisfactory
answer to the reaction which
greeted the news that he was a
conscientious objector. At that time,
the quick conclusion was that his
career as an actor was at an end
Now the idea Is that he will be pos
sibly more popular than ever.
His announced plan to enter the
ministry has not been entirely
shelved by Ayres.
Carlisle Jones is a small blond
wrath of a man on Warner Bros.
payroll who sometimes gets right
eous feeling that certain Holly
wood legends should be debunked.
His latest seizure, all of which
are quite readable things, is con-
cerned with. the cliche about "the
face on the cutting room floor"
Wartime conservation of film
stock, he discovered, virtually
eliminated that lavish type of film
cutting in which Hollywood used
to indulge. That took care of a lot
Of the faces that used to boast
about having been in a certain pic
ture until they ended upon the
cutting room floor.
Besides. he adds, sort Of vehe-
mently:
Faces cut from a picture are not
allowed to litter the floors at all.
They would become a fire hazard !!
They are carefully stored in metal
tins until the final editing of the
picture has been approved"
You can quote Jones the next
time some one tells you about hav-
ing played opposite Humphrey Bo-
gart or Bette Davis and who wants
to cry over having ended up on the
cutting room floor.
RKO's 1.-THE Spanish Main" which
reminded nearly every one of the old
swashbuckling days of Douglas Fair
banks, sr., will be followed by a Sc
quel which will have Douglas Fair
banks, jr., reminding every one of
his old man. "Sinbad the Sailor"
is its title and it will follow the same
formula as the hit costume piece of
last year. Maureen O'Hara will con-
tinue to be the fiery girl in the case
and will continue to be dressed in
those sensational costumes which
were one of the dramatic accents of
The Spanish Main"
Jane Greer of Washington will
be Miss O'Hara's lady in waiting
and in the same kind of costume.
X x X
Dane Clark, who ran a string of
soldier roles into the best young
actor reputation in 1945 Is getting
a chance in "A Very Rich Man." q
light-hearted thing in which the
most polished of screen villains, Sgd
ney Greenstreet, also will be some
one to laugh at.
Warmers would like to see some oi
its players untyped this season
which is sound idea.
X X u
The Diana" in Diana Films Is ir
honor of Joan Benefits youngest
daughter. Incidentally, the firm
headed by Walter Wanger and Fritz
Lang will get quite far away from
the formal of Woman in the Win
dow and Scarlet Street" In its
next production.
The hero Of that production will
be Billy the Kid and he will not be
impersonated by Edward G. Robin
Sor
Evening star., 1946-02-18

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1946-02-18
TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES
ters Having Matinees.

All Time Schedules Given in Warner
Bros. Ads Indicate Time Feature Ii
l presenf,A
Evening star., 1946-02-18

get a call from the studio to make
a picture" Carole says they want
three children, but one at this time
would be satisfactory.
Claude Rains, Bette Davis and
Paul Henreid get together again in
Her Concience." The last time the
trio emoted in the same picture was
in Now Voyager." Ronald Reagan
is back from his New York vaca-
ton to star In picture with Lau-
rem Bacall. 1t didn't take too much
to WOO Miss Bacall from
her decision of making pictures
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-21

such as duty, and patriotism and
service to our time, and God Him.
self.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-21
TheLiterary
Guidepost
BY w. G. ROGERS


ARCH OF TRIUMPH, by Erich Maria
Remarque, translated from the Ger
man by Walter SorelI and Denver
Lindley (Appleton-Century; ss)
A German refugee surgeon in
Paris, where he can't get a license
to practise but where his unques-
toned skill makes him a useful
stand-in for French doctors who are
not his professional equals, is the
central figure in this dramatic and
exciting novel about the decay and
collapse of western European civil
ization in 1888 and 1899.
Ravic is his assumed name. He
is physician in bordello. He tends
to the men and women without a
country and, worse still, without
the proper papers, who inhabit
his obscure hotel. He befriends
Joan Madou, minor singer but ma
jor personality; he pursues with
implacable hatred the Gestapo Of
fetal Haake, as Haake pursues
him in the fearful nightmares in
which he relives the torture he had
suffered in Berlin. Joan, Haake
and Sept. l, 1889, tie together for
smashing climax.
Ravic's surgical operations are
described in considerable grue-
some detail. Blood red is the dom
mating color in this book; red fol-
lows the knife across an abdomen
in a thin line, is picked up in a
chance thread, in a bouquet.
But even while it shocks YOU,
you realize shudderingly that it is
the symbol Of the social disinte.
grafton VIII c h is the authors
fundamental theme. Society
needed the knife even more than
the poor girls who sneaked des-
perately to Nine. Boucher's to
evade the consequences of their
errors, than the government Off
cial with diseased tissues, than the
unhappy Kate Hegstroem. Sym
bolism and action merge exciting.
ly in climactic pages devoted to
Haake.
Grim and forbidding, repulsive
in certain aspects, written in gall,
this is gripping as we'll as signifi-
cant story. Remarque has ideas
and ernbodies them in real people. |
Furthermore, he can turn phrase
to make you catch your breath.
This novel will not be to World
War II what Remarque's "All
quiet on the Western 'front.' was
% World War I, but comes closer
% it than the works Of numerous
other novelists who have tried
heir hand at it. i
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Look, My Friend, How Do You Know
When Your House Is Going To Burn?

mine expect Brewer to be, an
efficiency expert? Some days can't
figure myself how I'm going to be
able to get by until the next pay
day. Maybe you've had the same
| trouble.
Mr.. Brewer is good worker.
That's all that matters to me. The
people of Wilmington and New Han
over county have done well by
him. Mr.. Brewer not only realizes
this but he tries his darndest to
tell you he realizes it. He'll never
be what has been known as a WPA
case. He works for his living and
he worries about his children get
ting the sniffles just the same as
you and I do.
Mr.. Brewer didn't ask anybody
to help him when his house burned
down. He was all set to 60 out and
do something about it himself. He
was going to have tough struggle,
but he was still going to battle it
through.
And I think it's darned swell the
way the people here came through.
It re-established my faith in human
nature. Especially my faith in
people when the going gets tough.
Now, look. Bud, Pm no sob-sister.
1 don't like those gals. They've
got more tears than crying drunk.
But when a whole lot Of people
show they've got warm hearts like
the people here have shown in the
past few days then I don't appre-
clate anybody telling me something
like, well, how do we know what
we're doing is in good cause.
Let me end up by quoting what
Mike Patellis told me when he
wrote out a check for $50 for the
Brewers:
"How come I'm giving these
things? Well, look, my friend. how
do you know when you're going to
have your house burned DOWN."
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-21
No Half Way Measure,
Please

With the steel industry at virtual
standstill the forecast that the House
Labor Committee will approve some
form of strike control legislation not
later than tomorrow is encouraging, If
not wholly heartening.
On the grounds that any control
would be better than none, the COM
mittee appears ready, however, to ap-
prove a plan presented by Representa-
tive Lands of Indiana which would
deny any fact finding board the right
of subpoena - a proposal which Rep
resentative Barden rightly says "takes
the teeth out of the bill"
If there is to be any legislation which
would force cooling off" period for
labor it certainly should give the in
vestigating group the right to summon
any of the interested parties to testify
before it. How else can it be expected
to get at the facts Of proposed strike
or reach logical decision?
There is imperative need for strike
control. It can come only from Congress.
Obviously the Congress has no in
tention of going all the way with Presi-
dent Truman on his fact-finding pro-
posal. But it is not reasonable that
this committee or the House should
approve any compromise which would
leave a board of inquiry powerless to
learn the true state of affairs in the
controversy it is set up to investigate,
which it can do only if it has the sub
poena power.
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Religion
DayBy Day
No uyvrrrax.
By WILLIAM r. ELLIS
- --AA - --~
Is 1T TO:LAUGHp

Some years. ago I was invited :,
1ntroouce famous explorer to The
Philadelphia Forum. Stunning the
conventional form, introduced the
audience to the speaker: and he
mas never forgotten the occasion.
as l learned upon subsequent con.
facts. I was rather sinfullv proud
OF the success of my unique pre-
sentation.
AS came off the stage, The man.
ager ct The Forum, greatly pleas
co. said, "You got six good laughs
from the audience.
mat was his criterion of success
70 make people laugh, and it is the
oay criterion Of many radio feat
u.es ana other public entertain
menus. The most popular feature in
q. newspaper are its 'funnies." Dur
lug tne most tragic hour of the
war radio listeners could hasr IT,, e
aio auoiences laughing their empty
h heaos on over silly Jokes. Our day
nas assuredly gone wild in nurs,,;t
NOW l am no "sour pus". like
70 laugh and to provoke lauohtar
But life cannot be maintained ~
what Carlyle called "A diet vt vt
81 broad grin" AS Longfellow,s fsn i.
-; mar hnes have it. Life is real nfe
IS earnest" Let us laugh when we
may, but let us all make sure th.t
me core Of our characters is a con-
slant concern for serious thinvs-l