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Laurel outlook., 1947-07-09

But your greatest thrill will
come when you find out
that Chevrolet is the lowest
priced line in its field ...
and the line that costs less
for gas, oil and upkeep.
ChevroIet's the one car that
gives you Big-Car Quality
at Lowest Cost!
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
High School Students
In Scholarship Test

Five Bluffton high school students
were among 50 from Allen county
who took the senior scholarship tests
last Saturday at Lima Central high
school.
Those from Bluffton taking the
examination were Mary X Bauman,
Betty Bixel, Lyman Hofstetter, Ele-
nor Linden and Alice Pannabecker.
Examination papers were sent to
Columbus for grading and making
of state comparisons. Results Of
the examinations for which the up
per 40 per cent Of senior classes
were eligible are expected to be re-
ceived within the next week.
Supervising the examinations were
Harvey Badertscher, superintendent
of Lafayette-Jackson schools and
chairman of the committee; Supt. II.
s. Lanham of Blutfton; Stanton
Steiner of Lima Central high school
and George Maxfeld and Francis
Bonar, both Of Lima South high
school.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Motorists Have Only Three Weeks
10 Get New Auto Tags This Year

New automobile license plates are
making their appearance on Bluffton
area cars this week, after 1947 tags
went on sale Monday at the Bixel
Motor Sales Co.
With the sales period concentrated
in three weeks this year instead Of
the usual month, many motorists are
buying their auto tags earlier than
usual in the hope of avoiding a last
minute rush, according to Clayton
Bixel, Bluffton deputy license regis
trar.
Bluffton tags this year are in the
usual w and ZB series. The com
plete w series from 81 to $50 will
be distributed locally, and ZB tags
will run from 81 to 600. Last year
the local registrar distributed the
complete zB series and a part of
the w tags.
For the first time since 1941, mo-
torists are receiving two tags, for
display on the front and rear of
cars. Deadline for the operation of
motor vehicles with 1916 license
plates is April /.
In an announcement this week,
Bixel reminded motorists it is neces-
sary to bring the certificate of title
buying new tags.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
With The Sick

W. ". Carder who was i'll at his
home on South Main street has been
removed to Lima Memorial hospital.
Condition of Mrs. NJ NJ. Kibler
who underwent an operation at
Bluffton hospital early last week is
reported satisfactory.
Mrs. Florence sechler is quite i'll
at her home on Railroad street. Her
daughter, Mrs Glen switzer Of
Findlay spent Sunday here.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Murray and Mrs.
Lydia Ewing, III with effects Of
paralytic strokes continue patients
in Bluffton hospital with little change
in their condition.
Edwin Niswander has been renov.
cd from Lima Memorial hospital L
his home on the county line north d
Bfuffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Civic Clubs To Cooperate With Town
Council In Mosquito Control Program
Masonic Patterson
Banquet Next Week

Entertainment by magician will
feature the program at Father-So
banquet to be held by the Bluffton
Masonic lodge at 6:30 p, m. We'd
nesday night of next week in the
lodge hall.
Other features viii include the
showing of pictures on the Orient. by
DR.. f. 3. Rodahaugh; special music
and a short address by Clarence
Zangline, prominent Findlay Masonic
leader.
Preceding the program a dinner
will be served in the recently re-
decorated dining room Of the lodge
by the Eastern Star.
Robert Neiswander, master of the
lodge, is directing arrangements for
the affair.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Benefit Concert To
Aid College Fund

Additional support for Bluffton
colleges new $250,o00 gymnasium
auditorium will be provided by the
Lions club in donating to the build
ing fund all proceeds from benefit
concert to be presented in the Bluff
ton High auditorium at 8 p. m.
March %.
Appearing in the concert under
sponsorship of the Lions will be the
Rluffton Vesper Choir.
A program of popular and semi
classical selections will be sung by
the two groups under the direction
of Prof. Russell A. Lantz, head of
the college music department.
Ticket sale will be conducted by
the Lions club, and all proceeds will
be added to the building fund, which
passed the $4,000 mark in a com
munity drive held here in February.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Bread And Gasoline Prices Go Up
In Latest FURRY OF Increases
Flu Not Serious
In Schools Here

Illnesses which have assumed epi-
demic proportions in number of
Northwestern Ohio cities and towns
resulting in closing of schools, is not
prevalent here and there is no pros
pect at this time of closing schools
in Bluffton, it was stated by Supt.
r. S. Lanham, Wednesday noon.
Absenteeism is averaging less than
three per cent, he said, which is
considered satisfactory. The high
school reported total of IL absen-
tees on Tuesday and IS on Wednes-
day, the majority of which it was
assumed were influenza cases.
One case of scarletina was re-
ported from the grade schools as of
Wednesday noon, Supt. Lanham
stated. Because of illness prevalent
at this season, parents have been
requested by the superintendent to
exercise additional precautions in
regard to their children and call a
physician if any unusual symptoms
develop.
Influenza in Lima assumed proper
tions of mild epidemic the first of
the week and has resulted in clos
ing of the school there. Lima school
officials reported a p per cent of
absenteeism, as compared with less
than three per cent i'm Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Mission House Choir
Sings Here Thursday

A varied concert Of sacred music
will be presented in the st. Johns
Evangelical and Reformed church
Thursday night at 7:30 by the 36-
voice A Cappella choir of Mission
House college, Plymouth, Wisconsin.
During the present spring concert
season the choir is appearing in per-
formances in Wisconsin, Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and Ketucky.
Selections by the recognized mas
ters of choral music make up the
choir's sacred program. Special
numbers between the three sections
of choral presentation will include
selections by vocal artists.
The young men and women in the
choir are students at Mission House
college and come from every section
of the country. A UNCONVENTIONAL
college of the Evangelical and Re-
formed church, Mission House is one
of the younger institutions estab-
lished by the Reformed church be-
fore its merger with the Evangelical
church.
Established primarily as a school
to prepare young men for the min
istry, it is now a recognized CO.
educational liberal arts college.
The choir is directed by Prof. w.
H. Eiierbusch, head of the college
department Of music.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
FARM MACHINERY
CONTINUES SHORT
FOR FIFTH YEAR
Despite Fantastic Prices For
Used Equipment Virtually
None Available
Farmers Hesitate to Sell Old
Implements Because of Slow
Delivery of New

With the shortage Of new farm
machinery virtually as critical as dur
ing war year, farmers in the Bluff
ton area this spring are carefully
outstanding all that they have avail
able and would-be buyers find little
power driven equipment for sale at
any price.
Realization of the difficulty Of OBJ
tanning requirements has practically
dried up the market for used ma
'chinery The number Of public sales
this spring has dropped sharply and
farm machinery being offered at
auction is largely by those retiring
from active farming
Although used implements win
bring prices higher than during the
war when OPA ceilings were in eff
feet, there is little sales activity be-
cause sellers are not certain when
replacement items will be available
through dealers swamped with tre-
mendous backlogs Of orders.
When price ceilings were in effect
more farm machinery was offered
for sale than at the present when
the seller can set virtually any price
he wants for used equipment.
FARMERS EXPECTED New MACHINERY
This apparent paradox has arisen
from the fact that farmers assumed
there would be plenty Of new ma
chinery available within few
months after the war had ended.
Now they are faced by the fact
that virtually all dealers have equal
" as long waiting lists for new
equipment as during the war, and
the uncertainty of when the situa-
tion viii be remedied results in the
decision to keep equipment the
farmer would like to sell.
MAKE OLD EQUIPMENT
In view of existing conditions,
antiquated and broken-down farm
machinery Is being overhauled and
put into shape on Bluffton area
farms, for another year.
Any implement that can serve as
a makeshift will be pressed into
service by farmers who cannot OBJ
tain new equipment from dealers to
serve their needs.
With spring plowing in progress
farmers are faced by the task of
getting into shape the equipment
they have on hand, and to depend
on it to see them through another
year of all-out production effort.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
SpOrtsmens and Lions Groups
Seek to Avoid Last Sum-
mer's Impasse
View Possibility of Spraying
Town with DDT from Low
Flying Plane

An answer to the impasse that
forced discontinuance of Bluffton's
mosquito control program last sum-
mer is sought by the Bluffton Com
munity Sportsmen's club and the
Lions club in action taken to assist
municipal officials in finding a solu-
tion to the problem.
Latest development in the late win
ter movement aimed at revival of
mosquito control measures during
the coming summer will be COM
munity meeting sponsored by the
Sportsmen's club, at p. M. this
Wednesday in the organizations
meeting room at the town hall.
Mosquito control measures will be
discussed at the session by j. d.
Cherry, representative of the Sher-
win Williams Co., who will show
color-sound motion pictures of the
use of DDT insecticide and 240
weed killer
TALK SPRAY FROM AIRPLANE
Following Cherry's appearance on
the program there will be open dis
cussion on the possibility of spray
ing Bluffton with DDT from low
flying airplanes as means of con-
trolling mosquitoes during the COM
ing summer season.
The community meeting for con-
sideration of mosquito control pro-
posals follows by one week action
taken by the Bluffton Lions club in
naming a committee to convey to
the town council formal offer of
the clubs willingness to cooperate in
attempting to iron out the impasse
in mosquito control here.
On the committee are C. B. Fett,
Rev. Paul Cramer and r. A. Lantz.
CONTROL GOES BY DEFAULT
Bluffton last summer was without
mosquito control program for the
first time in seven years because
town officials found it impossible to
employ anyone to take the unpleas-
ant job of spraying creeks and other
bodies of water within village limits
For the three preceding summers
Mayor w. A Howe had shouldered
the responsibility of conducting the
control program, after no one else
could be found to do it, but he de-
clined the task last summer and
Bluffton's mosquito situation was
right back where it was eight years
ago when there were no measures to
prevent the summer infestation.
With no control program in oper-
alton, mosquitoes last summer were
worse in Bluffton than for nearly a
decade, and one year of control re-
Taxation was sufficient to demon
strate that spraying during the pre-
ceding seven summers had been a
worthwhile and necessary program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
OCCUPANTS ARE
HOMELESS AFTER
APARTMENT FIRE
Damage in Excess of $4,000 at
Biederman Apartments on
South Main Street.
Firemen Battle Midnight Blaze
in Three-Story Structure
For Two Hours.

A midnight fire in the Biederman
apartment building at South Main
and Kibler streets Sunday night made
homeless occupants Of three apart
ments and caused damage estimated
in excess of $4,000 to The house and
contents.
Discovered by a passing motorist,
who notified the tenants, the blaze
was one of the most stubborn Bluff
ton fremen have been called on to
battle in recent years. Cause of the
fire was undetermined.
Flames had burst thru the long
sloping roof Of the three. story frame
structure in several places when the
alarm was sounded at midnight, and
by the time the fire was brought un-
der control two hours later apart
ments occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
gar Cook, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Steiner and the Misses Florence
Grieser and Alice Lewis had been
made untenable..
One Apartment Edyable
A fourth apartment at the rear Of
the lower floor, occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Garland Basinger, was undam.
aged except for smoke, and they are
continuing their residence in the
building.
Principal fire damage was suffered
in the two upstairs apartments oc-
cupied By Mr.. and Mrs. Cook and
Miss Grieser and Miss Lewis. Fur
niture, clothing and other household
equipment were virtually q complete
loss in those cases,
The Steiner apartment On the low
er floor suffered from water damage,
and fallen plaster. Some Of the
Steiner housefurnishings were remov-
ed, but much of it also was dam
aged
Made homeless by the FIRE, Mr.. and
Mrs. Cook are living temporarily
with the Basingers; ssus Il Rave -ssssssse
room for them in their apartment
The Steiner family is with Mrs. j. S.
Steiner, of South Main street. Miss
Grieser and Miss Lewis, both nurses,
are living in the nurses dormitory at
the Bluffton Community hospital.
The apartment building is owned
by Mrs. John Boehm, of Rawson, the
former DR.. Rosella Biederman, of Je-
nera. Remodeled into a four-apart-
ment dwelling about 10 years ago,
the building was the old Biederman
homestead.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Real Estate Deal

Kenneth Luginbuhl has purchased
the Lester Niswander property on
South Main street i'm a deal closed
the first of the week. Niswander
who purchased. the former VIM.
Lewis property at Vine street and
North Lawn avenue last summer ex-
poets to build another House on a
portion of the lot.
j. A. Leatherman, operator of a
South Main street sheet metal shop,
has traded his Cherry street resi-
dence to Galen Thomas for the lat
ter's residence in Findlay. The two
householders moved over the week
end Leatherman will continue to
operate his shop here and expects
to open an establishment in Findlay
Thomas is employed at the steinman
Bros Lumber company here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13

day, the one and one-half cent boost
brought 21 cents a gallon for regu-
lar gasoline and % cents a gallon
for premium grades.
Bread prices on Tuesday advanced
one cent for a 20-ounce loaf to a
mark of Is cents, with the exception
of one store which continued to sell
at Is cents.
Increases of 25 cents barrel for
crude oil and so cents a bushel for
wheat were given as reasons for the
price hikes of gasoline and wheat,
in announcements made by process
ors.
Butter prices were dropping from
last weeks high of 50 cents, be-
cause of sharp weaknesses develop
ing in Chicago and New York mark
cts, after cost of the product had
risen from low of Sd cents pre-
vailing the latter part of February
Last general increase in gasoline
prices before Wednesdays one and
one-half cent boost was a one-hali
cent increase last November %.
Soaring wheat prices were reflect.
ed in the one-cent advance in the
cost of bread, with the grain bring
ing its highest mark since 1920 at
major terminals.
Wheat prices have gone up 30
cents bushel in the past seven
weeks, with flour hiked along the
line to correspond with the increase
in grain trading. Bread heretofore
has escaped price raises because
bakers were using flour purchased
before the current advance.
Purchases of wheat and flour by
government agencies for shipment
to food deficit areas abroad were
considered primarily responsible by
grain experts for the sharp price
advance of late winter. The short
age of box cars is another contribut-
ting factor, aggravating scarcity
Of grain, as mills scour the country
to make purchases.
Shipments of wheat and -four a.
broad in the IL months ended June
30 will total 350,000,000 bushels, ac-
cording to a government report re-
leased last week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
FORMER BLUFFTON
WOMAN KILLED IN
CROSSING MISHAP
Mrs. Mildred Sterrett, Former
Mildred Pratt, Dies as Auto
Hits Train.
Two Killed in Mishap Near Van
Vert; Family Formerly Re-
sided Here.

Mrs. Mildred L. Sterrett 32, form
erly Of Bluffton, was killed in a rail-
road grade crossing crash near Van
Vert early Monday.
Mrs. sterrett, the former Mildred
Pratt was the younger daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Pratt. She was
graduated from Bluffton high school
in the class of 1882. The family liv-
ed here until about 13 years ago at
the corner of North Lawn avenue and
Washington streets in the house now
occupied by Clarence Henry.
Mrs. Sterrett died instantly when
the automobile she was driving was
involved in a collision with a Penn
sylvania railroad train, one mile west
of Van Vert.
Edwin Lampert, %, who was rid
ing with Mrs. Sterrett, died 30 min
utes after the crash in the Van Vert
hospital.
Lived With Sister
Mrs. Sterrett with her children,
Ronald, -; Kay 10, and Tommie, 8,
had gone to Van Vert to spend the
weekend with relatives. She had been
living with a sister, Mrs. Joseph
Naylor, the former Myra Pratt, near
Dola.
According to train crew members,
the automobile, travelling south, coll
lided with the center of the locomo-
tive and was carried $50 feet from
the scene of the mishap.
She is survived by her three child
rem and the sister, Mrs. Naylor.
= Funeral services were held We'd
nesday in the Jerusalem Church of
Christ, six miles north of Ada. Rev.
George Clapp officiated. Burial was
in the Clymer cemetery, near Mt.
Cory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
BeaUerdana School
Operettd Friday

Peter Rabbit" an operetta, will
be staged by the music department
of the Beaverdam school in the
Beaverdam high school auditorium
Friday night at 8 o'clock.
The operetta, in three acts will be
presented by pupils of the first six
grades under direction Of Miss Mabel
Amstutz, instructor in public school
music.
Preceding the operetta will be a
program of instrumental and vocal
numbers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Special Services
At Ebenezer Church

Addison c. Raws of Keswick
Grove, N. j., conference speaker and
cornetist will conduct a series of
meetings at the Ebenezer Mennonite
church next week it is announced by
the pastor, Rev. Howard Landes.
The services will open next Sun
day and close on the following Sun
day, March %. Afternoon meetings
will be held at 2:30 from Monday to
Saturday, inclusive on the topic
Practical Praying. Meetings at 8
o'clock every evening beginning next
Sunday until the following Sunday
will be on the topic The Victorious
Life.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
VILLAGE SUED FOR
$1,000 BY WOMAN
AFTER ACCIDENT
Damage Suit Brought by Mrs.
Ilo Isham to be Heard
Next Tuesday
Injuries Alleged Suffered in
Fall When Leaving Elec-
ton Polls

Suit for $4,000 in damages brought
by Mrs. Ilo Isham, former resident
here, against the village Of Button
for injuries alleged to have been
sustained in a fall at a precinct
voting place here is set. The hearing
will be held in the Allen county
common pleas court next Tuesday.
The incident on which the suit is
based is said to have occurred on
election day November S, 1910 at
the fire department room in the
town hall. Mrs. Isham at that time
lived in Bluffton and later moved to
Lima where she now resides.
She is being represented in the
case By Meredith & Meredith, Lima
law firm and the municipality is
represented by D. r. Tripplehorn,
city solicitor.
Claims Injuries
Mrs. Tsham's suit alleges that as
. result Of the fall her nervous
system has been impaired and in
jured and as further result
cf said injury to major and jaw
bones thickening or unnatural
growth has taken place on and
around said major bone causing Said
injury to be permanent and causing
plaintiff to lose the feeling in the
region Of said injury"
The mishap is said to have occur
red when Mrs. Isham fell over a
cement block used to hold open one
of the swinging doors at the polling
place. In the fall her face struck
the pavement, breaking her glasses
and iniuring her face and the right
major bone and the right upper
iawbone Of her face, she alleges. She
also suffered cuts, abrasions and
bruises on her legs, arms and body,
her petition states.
In the villages answer respon-
sibility for the block being placed
in the doorway is attributed to
board Of election officials rather than
to the municipality.
Village Denies Responsibility
The municipality in its reply also
alleges that the block was not in
the doorway at the time the premises
were turned over to the board of
elections and the village disclaims
responsibility for any action which
may have been taken by election
workers in placing it there.
During the time the polling place
was in use, the village was not in a
position to exercise any authority
over actions of election workers, the
defendant points out.
In the villages answer it also is
stated that the approach to the fire
station is by a lawful cement walk
eight feet wide and that entrance to
the station has no step or sill. The
opening is equipped by two doors
which swing outwardly and that the
entrance is well lighted, both outside
and inside.
Failure to see the block is attribut-
ed by the town as due to careless
ness and negligence on the part of
the plaintiff and as an evidence of
carelessness and disregard for her
own safety in failure to observe
ordinary care.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Lenten Services At The
Grace Church, Pandora

Rev. Marion Tinsler of Ohio
Northern university, Ada, will be
the speaker at week of pre- Easter
services at The Grace Mennonite
church, Pandora, it is announced by
the pastor, Rev. Bohn.
Services beginning next Sunday
and closing the following Sunday,
March %, win be held every night
except Saturday at 7:45. Also
services at 10:30 o'clock both Sun
day mornings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital;
Mr. and Mrs. O'Dell Alspach,
Dayton, girl, Linda Lee, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton limerick,
Lafayette, boy, Michael Ray, Sum
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bell, boy,
Thomas Orton, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Gossard,
Beaverdam, a girl, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Holman,
Lafayette, a boy Tuesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13

First of a series of Youth for
Christ rallies will be held in Bluff
ttn, Saturday night, April 26, it was
announced this week. The rallies
will be monthly on the fourth Satur-
day night alternating between Bluff
ton and Pandora, it was stated.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Alarm Sounds When
Grass Fire Spreads

A grass fire spreading thru a
vacant field near the Nickel Plate
siding and the new factory building
of the B1uffton Cement Block COM
pany brought a call for the fire de-
partment Tuesday afternoon at 3
o'clock. The flames we're extinguish-
ed and no damage reported. Origin
Of the blaze Is unknown.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13

Neil Schmidt, Bluffton h ig h
schools ace basketball forward was
named on the first team all Ohio
Class B team selected BY the Asso-
ciated Press, it was announced We'd
nesday morning.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-03-13
Bluffton High School Basketball
Ace Named On All-State Class & Team

Schmidt led the Western Buckeye
league in scoring the past season
with a total Of 430 points, an aver
age of nearly q points per game.
Schmidt was in the lineup in 10 of
Buttons 20 games, being out Of
one game because of injuries.