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Evening star., 1947-05-15
Lone to Speak at Rally
Of Democratic Women

Gov. Lane will speak at the spring
rally and luncheon Of the United
Democratic Women's Clubs of
Maryland at 1880 pm. Monday at
the Manor Club. Norbeck.
Presidents Of the Western Mary
land Women's Democratic Clubs
win be hostesses, assisted by Mrs.
Robert M. Poole and Mrs. Frances
McFadden of Montgomery County.
John White. Colmar Manor, for
mer speaker of the Maryland House
OF Delegates, will sing. Mrs. Gene
We've H. Wells, Silver Spring, chair
man of the United Democratic
Women's Clubs, will preside.
Evening star., 1947-05-15
orotory Winner Named

| ANNAPOLIS. Md, May Is Fl.--
Mids1ipman 3fC Robert K. Kdpley
lof Helena, Mont, won the annual
Inratorical contest sponsored by the
Naval Academy Trident Society.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-19

Fatal Disease
One out u every ave ehlldrea whe
develops rheumatic FEWER aiss wilAr
% 10 yaAra
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Dresden Art DiaplAy
IN N. w. RAnk Rldr.

A Dresden Art DISpIay Of
Angelic Ftgurinss IL now being en-.
hibltsd BY the Northwestern Ma.
tiORai Bank, Minneapolis In their
9th Street entrance vSstibUls win.
dow.
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-19

through the courtesy Of Mrs. Helen
Phillips. Who 10 an adult student at
the Bryant Community Center.
Clinton Avenue s, At Ssth 81. IN
Dresden Craft.
The work represents the results
Of eight weeks study In thia ASld.
MFH. Phillips has been q rSaldSnt Of
Minneapolis for seven yUara and
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-19
Page T. MnnsapOl, SPOKESMAN Friday. December ls ls4l

resides at iTlI eth Ave. n.
The Minneapolis Urban League
vas instrumental In obtaining
space for the display which win
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
BLuftOn Couple
Weds In Chicago

Wedding of Veldean Carts, Bluff
ton beautician, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Moser, and James Mar
tin, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Mar
tin, all of Bluffton, took place in
Chicago last Friday night.
The marriage was solemnized in a
double ring ceremony at the home
of the officiating minister, Rev. A.
C. Schultz, former pastor of the
Ebenezer Mennonite church here.
The couple was attended by Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Watkins of Chi
cago, formerly of Blufton. The
bride wore for the occasion a brown
and white suit with orchid corsage
and brown accessories.
Following the wedding the couple
left for Columbus where they at
tended the state hairdressers' con-
vention, returning here Monday
night.
The bride operates Vels Beauty
Box on North Main street and Mr..
Martin since his discharge from the
armed services has been employed at
the Triplett plant.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06

Services for Glenn Nonnamaker,
81, of Orange township, were held
at the Basinger funeral home Sat
urday afternoon with Rev. Irwin
Kaufman pastor of the Bethesda
Evangelical church officiating.
Mr.. Nonnamaker, a retired A. G.
& Y. railroad maintenance worker
died Thursday morning in Bluffton
hospital of urernic poisoning follow
ing a several days illness.
He was born in Orange township
the son of Ami and Frances Norma
makes, July 2s, 1889. He was a
member of Bethesda church.
Surviving are his mother of
Orange township; two sisters, Mrs.
Bernice Klingler of Ada and Miss
Faery Nonnamaker at home; a bro
ther Howard Nonnamaker of Je-
nera. He was never married.
Interment following funeral serv-
ices was in Hassen cemetery, Orange
township.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
BODY OF WAYNE
YOAkAM COMING
THURSDAY NIGHT
CIeyeland-St. Louis Train TO
Bring Remains of Army
Lieutenant
Funeral Services win BE Held
i'm Church at Arlington:
Bury There

Body of 1t. Wayne Yoakam, 20,
Bluffton native who died in Ger
many will arrive in Blutfton, Thurs
day night on the Cleveland-St. Louis
Nickel Plate train due here at 9:25
p. m.
Word to this effect was received
by members of the family here We'd
nesday noon. The body, according
to the message is now in Hoboken,
N. j., from where it viii be sent to
Bluffton.
On arrival here the remains will
be taken to the Paul DiIler funeral
home awaiting completion of ar
rangements for the funeral services.
1t. Yoakam died in Germany, De-
cember s of injuries resulting from
a grade crossing accident when a
jeep in which he was riding was
struck by a train.
Funeral, according to present
plans, will be held at the Good Hope
Lutheran church, Arlington, where he
was married Jan. Z, 1915 to the for
mer Lucille Smith Of Jenera who sur
wives. Rev. Arthur Rismiller will
officiate. Burial viii be in the Ar
lington cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
DR.. J. E. HartzIer To Be Blufft0n
High commencement Speaker May q
BeuUerdur, Institute
Next Wednesday

Afternoon and evening sessions
will feature q Beayerdam community
institute to be held in the high
school building at that place, Wed
nesday of next week.
Appearing on the afternoon pro-
gram, opening at | p. m. will be
Rev. Arthur Romig, of Lima; Coun-
ty Extension Agent James Warner
and Harry F. Barnes, Of Bluffton,
vocational agriculture teacher at
Beaverdam.
Rev. Paul II. Graeser, of Lima,
viii be the speaker at the evening
session, starting at 1880 p. m.
Special music and other features
also will be presented at afternoon
and evening sessions.
Institute officers include Lewis r.
Vanmeter, president; |. A. LaRue,
vice-president, and c. L. Rupright,
secretary.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
Former BlufftOn Seminary Head
viii Give Class Address
This Year
Bluffton High Has Senior Class
of 55, Supt. r. s. Lanham
Announces

DR.. j. E. Hartzler, of Goshen, Ind,
who lived in Bluffton about IT
years ago, will be the speaker at
Bluffton High school commencement
exercises on Thursday night, May %.
Announcement that DR.. Hartzler
will be the class speaker was made
this week by Supt. Ralph S. Lanham,
of the public school system.
When he lived here DR.. Hartzler
was president of Witmarsum Theo-
logical seminary, formerly located on
the Bluffton college campus. Now a
resident of Goshen, Ind, he is a
lecturer at Hartford Theological
seminary, Hartford, Conn, and
travels extensively about the country
as speaker.
Bluffton has a class of 55 seniors
this year, Supt. Lanham said.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
Money to be Invested in Mod
ern Application of Parable
Of the Talents
Each Member of Congregation
Receives Money Distributed
at Sunday Services

In a present-day application of the
Biblical parable of the talents, the
sum Of 1000 was distributed at the
Presbyterian church Sunday when
each person present at the morning
service was handed SO bill as a
basic investment in a plan to raise
$4,000 for improvements to the
church and manse.
Following a sermon on the topic
Here Is Your Talent" by the pas
tor, Rev. E. N. Bigelow, an unan-
nounced feature of the service came
when ushers came forward to the
front of the church auditorium with
collection plates heaped high with
crisp new SO bills.
Handing the first bill to the pas
tor, the ushers then passed collec-
ton plates thru the audience with a
bin for everyone present, including
members of the congregation and
visitors.
USED AS INVESTMENT
\ The money, the pastor explained
is to be used as a symbol, together
with other resources as an invest
ment in adding to talents in raising
funds for the long-range improve
ment program planned by the
church.
Rev. Bigelow's sermon on the Bib
lical story of investment of talents
stressed three steps involved: Civ
ing of the talent; 2-Using of the
talent, and 3-Accounting of the
talent.
Printed lists of suggestions for
putting the talents to work also were
distributed Sunday morning with
various pursuits mentioned for those
of junior high school age and over,
SURPRISE TO CONGREGATION
The unusual idea conceived by the
church finance committee and ap-
proved by members of the board OF
trustees who authorized borrowing
of the money for talent distribution
came as a complete surprise to ths
congregation which knew nothing o1
the plan until distribution of the
money was started.
With the initial fund of $1,000
exhausted in Sunday mornings dis.
tribution an additional $3.50 was OBJ
tanned the first of the week which
will be sent in $40 bills by register
ed mail to members of the congrega-
ton who were not present at last
Sundays service.
This, it was pointed out, will COM
plete the initial phase of the cam
paign which viii continue until
June %.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
COLD WAVE MOST
SEVERE OF WINTER
SWEEPS BLuFFTON
Near-Zero Temperatures Re-
corded for Second Time in
Two Weeks
Gas Service is CurtaiIed Tues
day; Skating on Tennis
Courts

Confirming last Sundays Ground
hog Day prediction of six more
weeks of cold weather, the winters
severest cold wave swept into the
Bluffton area late Monday night and
continued into Wednesday morning
when the mercury barely missed the
zero mark for the second time in
two weeks.
When the Grounding saw his
shadow in Sundays bright and sun
ny weather he set the stage for the
seasons worst wintry assault, and
a rapid drop of the thermometer
started Monday night brought a
reading of four above at s a. IN.
Tuesday.
Near-zero temperatures continued
all day Tuesday with the highest
mark at seven degrees in the after
noon and dropping to two above zero
Tuesday night at 10 o'clock. Slight
rise in the thermometer was indi-
Gated after midnight when a high
of 5 degrees was attained, accom-
panied by a rising wind.
Wednesday morning showed slowly
rising temperatures and considerably
warmer weather is forecast for
Thursday.
Button gas service was disrupted
by the cold wave, with the first eff
fects showing up on Tuesday when
industrial users had service suspend
ed. One local restaurant found it
impossible to prepare any food ex-
cept hamburger steaks.
SKATING ON TENNIS COURTS
While aFea residents shivered in
the icy ble 1t, a youth contingent
that has been anxiously awaiting
colder weather for three weeks, to
bring a start of Bluffton Recreation
Committee sponsored ice skating on
the college tennis courts, found their
hopes finally realized.
When predictions of the cold wave
were received on Monday, the courts
were flooded by the fire department
pumper. Sandbags had been placed
along the creek edge of the courts
two weeks ago, to make flooding
feasible.
Preparation and flooding of the
courts was directed by William Ed
wards and Coach A. c. Burcky, of
the recreation committee
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
EIUir1u CribLez Bride
Of Wilbur HeLdnldFl

Simplicity marked the wedding of
Miss Elvina Criblez, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Criblez, living
south of Biuffton and Wilbur c.
Heldman, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi
Heldman of Rawson, solemnized
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The wedding was solemnized at
the home of the officiating minister,
Rev. Voss of Trinity Lutheran
church in Jenera. The couple was
unattended.
The bride was attired in grey
wool crepe suite with black aecessor-
les and wore a corsage of pink car
nations. Following the ceremony
the couple left on a short wedding
trip.
The bride served for a number of
years on the nursing staff of the
Bluffton hospital. The couple will
reside on the farm of the bride
groom's parents, where he is en-
gagged in farming.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
COMMUNITY NEED
WOULD Be FILLED
BY COLLEGE GYM
New S250,000 Structure Would
Be Ideal for Basketball
Tournaments
Used AS Auditorium, Building
Would Have Accommo-
dations for 1,S00

Bluffton colleges proposed $780,
900 gymnasium-auditorium will serve
three major purposes on the cam
pus, it was pointed out this week as
a local committee readied plans for
solicitation of the Bluffton commun-
ity to raise funds for the new build
ing.
With it's largest enrolment in his
tory, and operating free of debts,
the college has planned the gymnas-
ium-auditorium as the first step in
an expansion program required to
keep pace with the growth of the in.
stitution.
Three major functions served By
the building will be its adaptability
Continued on page p
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
DEL PHOS PUBLIC IS
FIRST TOURNEY FOE
FOR PIRATE CAGERS
Unbeaten High School Five win
Play First Tournament
Game Feb. IL
Four Strongest Teams in 1917
Tournament Are Grouped
in Upper Bracket

Bluffton high schools fast stepping
basketball team, which defeated all
eomers thruout the season by wide
margins will meet Delphos jefferson
high on Monday, February IT in the
first round of the Glass B basketball
tournament for exempted village and
parochial teams. The game viii be
played in the Ohio Northern GYM
nasium at Ada.
Riding the crest of a spectacular
15-game winning streak, Bluffton
Highs undefeated cagers are the
tournament favorites and will be
the team most anxiously watched in
play in the Ohio Northern gym
nasium.
All the tournaments stronger
teams are grouped in the upper
bracket with Bluffton. In addition
to meeting DeIphos jefferson as their
first tourney fee, the Pirates, if
successful, must tangle with winner
of the Lima st. Rose -DeIphos st.
Johns tilt on Thursday, Feb. 20.
Delphos jefferson has an outstand-
ing record this season; Lima St.
Rose has dropped only two decisions,
one a So to AZ setback at the hands
of Bluffton, and Delphos st. Johns
is the only team which has beaten
Elida's crackerjack aggregation this
winter.
In the lower bracket are Ada,
Lima st. Johns, Hicksville, Wapak-
oneta st. Joe and Lima St. Girard.
Ada and Wapakoneta st. Joe will
engage in the tournament opener on
Feb. Ia.
Play in the tournament at the
Ohio Northern gymnasium will be
on Feb. Is, IT, Is, 20 and %.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
Church Members Gasp
When Ushers Hand Them $40 Bills
-Four Escape Serious
Hurt In Auto Misflap

Four Bluffton area residents es-
capped serious injury late last We'd
nesday afternoon when automobiles
driven by Chauncey Spallinger, of
near Beaverdam, and Warren Moser,
of Gratz crossing, collided at the
old Gratz school road intersection
near Moser's home
Taken to the Bluffton hospital in
the Basinger ambulance following
the crash were Spallinger, his wife
who was in the car with him, and
Clair Moser, of west of Bluffton, a
passenger in the other auto.
Moser and SpaIlinger were releas-
ed following emergency treatment,
and Mrs. Spallinger remained in the
hospital until Saturday when she
was taken home. She suffered
bruises and an eye cut.
Both cars were badly damaged in
the mishap.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06

The following births at Rluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Luginbuhl,
Bluffton, a boy, Wednesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Truman Bixel, Bluff
ton, a boy, Earl Dean, Tuesday
Mrs. Bixel is the former Levada
Ralmer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Bowman
Bluffton, a girl, Nyra Elaine, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs Eugene Firestone
Toledo, a girl, Janus Fay, Saturday
Mrs. Firestone Is the former Berda
Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Coates, Lima
boy. Frederick Alan, Thursday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
MILK DROPS ONE
CENT QUART;;PRICE
TO FARMERS LESS
New Retail Price of Is Cents is
First Break in Long Upward
Trend.
Butter Prices Reverse Decline
and Rise; Butterfat Also
Higher.

Lower prices for milk in the
Bluffton area are reflected this week
in both consumers and producers
markets, it developed Wednesday
morning.
Reduction in retail milk price
from 10 cents to Is cents a quart
was announced the first of the week
by two dairies supplying Bluffton
while at the same time the return
to farmers for sales of raw milk
dropped from $4.10 to s4 per humid
red pounds.
The drop in retail milk is the first
reduction here since the price began
its steady upward climb more than
a year ago.
The four-dollar price of raw milk,
paid to farmers in the Bluffton area
was announced Wednesday morning
by the Page Dairy company, prin-
cipal buyer of milk in this district.
RAW MILK Down 10 CENTS
The price is for milk marketed
during the last half of January and
represents decline of ten cents un-
der the quotation for the first half
of last month. December's price was
$4.35.
While milk prices drifted lower,
the butter market showed definite
signs of strength after an uninter-
rupted decline for several weeks.
Butter which dropped to ga cents
pound here the latter part of last
week was quoted at 81 cents We'd
nesday afternoon. Butterfat, like
wise which usually moves with the
market for butterwas posted at 60
cents pound Wednesday, an ad-
vance of six cents over the market
of week ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
Orange TlOp. Girl
Married Sunday

Miss Dorothy Bassitt, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Bassitt of Orange
township and Clarence Kersker, Jr.,
were married Sunday afternoon at
2 o'clock at the home of the bride
groom's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Kersker, Sr., of near Lima.
Rev. II. A. Peterson officiated at
the ceremony. Miss Barbara Kers-
ker, sister of the bridegroom played
the wedding march and the bride
was attended by her sister, Miss
Joan Bassitt. Carl Conaway was
best man.
The bride attended Beaverdam
high school and later was employed
in Lima. Mr.. Kersker, a graduate
Of Lafayette high school served
three years in the Navy and is now
also employed in Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
Council Accepts NeIU
GGrmdtter Addition

Accepted by the municipal council
at its meeting Monday night were
plans for the Garmatter addition to
the village, a 28-lot subdivision off
College road, west of Elm street.
A new street, Garmatter avenue,
extending east from College road,
will run thru the addition to depth
Of 6s8 feet. There will be ii build
ing lots on each side of the 40-foot
street.
Corner lots at College road are
81 feet wide, and the others so feet
in width, according to the layout.
Councilmen alsJ took action to
officially extend Kfbler street from
Lawn avenue to College avenue, clar-
flying confusion as to whether the
section should be known as West
Kibler street or Prosperity avenue.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
PROSPECT REMOTE
FOR HOLDING TOWN
PRIMARY ELECTION
Democrats and Republicans
Name Tickets AT Monday
Night Caucuses
Political Leaders Anticipate No
Inter-Party Contests
Here
Municipal Candidates

Municipal Candidates
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN
For Mayor
Arden X. Baker Paul w. Stauffer
For Town Clerk
Charles Emans Richard Cookson
For Town Treasurer
Sidney C. StettIer Hiram Huser
For Council
Don Patterson Armin Hauenstein
Frank Todd Charles Alderman
c. A. Staufger Richard Davies
Wilford Gratz Cieon TripIett
w. q. Gaiger Carl Cahill
For Board of Public Affairs
"A. c. Burcky Harry #. Barnes
Forrest Steiuman Harvey Beidler
Bluffton will not have primary
this summer, for the second time in
successive "off-year elections, it was
indicated Monday night when no
inter-party contests developed on
either ticket at Democratic and
Republican caucuses to draft slate
of candidates for municipal offices.
With citizens shying away from
candidacy, and the deadline for filing
falling at p. m. this Wednesday,
prospective nominees were named at
the caucuses to fill the Republican
and Democratic tickets.
Uncertainty still beclouded the
political horizon following the caucus
meetings, for party leaders said they
have no information if all those
named will accept, and there is
prospect of last-minute scrambling
to maintain full tickets for the filing
deadline.
Trend of the last few years in
regarding the holding of public of
fees as unwanted jobs was apparent
in pre-caucus maneuvering Of both
parties.
Just how many of those named at
the caucuses will run for election
next fall represents question to
which party committeeman must get
the answers before the filing dead
line Wednesday.
With little possibility of the
development of inter-party contests,
it appears that town primary
election will be by-passed again this
year. Z
In 1945 when candidates also were
few and far between, Bluffton held
no primary, and neither party had a
Iull slate of candidates in the fall
election.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06

Deputies from the Office of the
collector of internal revenue will be
in Bluffton at the mayors office,
Tuesday, February Is from $3.50
a. m. to 4:3o p. m. to assist tax
payers in preparing their federal
income tax returns.
The office of the internal revenue
collector at the Lima post office
building also will be open for this
purpose from Monday through Fri
day of each week and on Saturday,
March 8 and is.
Any person whose total income in
1916 was $500 or more is required
to file a return on or before March
Is.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
NeJU Night SuperUisOr
At BLuft0n Hospital

Miss Ruth Roaz of Pandora re-
Gently named as night supervisor of
Bluffton hospital has begun her
duties here, it was announced We'd
nesday by Miss Sylvia Biederman,
hospital superintendent. Miss Boaz
is a graduate of Lima Memorial
hospital school of nursing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
p. T. 4. To Discuss
International Peace

A panel discussion on the topic of
international peace will be held at
the meeting of the Bluffton Parent
Teacher association at the high
school cafeteria next Monday night
at o'clock.
The BlufFton Ministerial associa..
tion is in charge of the program and
Rev. Paul Cramer viii lead the dis
cuasion.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-02-06
Elect Officers For
Business Mems Assn.

William Edwards was chosen
president of the Bluffton Business
Mems association for the coming
year at the annual election of officers
last Wednesday night.
Other officers elected included;
vice pres, Morris Fett; secretary, W.
o. Geiger; treas, H. NJ. Troy;
representative on Community Pro-
gress committee, silas Diller; alter
nate, Clayton Bixel.