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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
New Auto And Tractors Among Other
Scarce Items To Be Sold At Auction

Many of those hard-to-get items,
characterizing the shortages Of this
period, including a new automobile,
new refrigerator, new tractor, etc,
viii go to the highest bidder at the
gigantic community auction sale to
be held at Harmon field on Saturday,
May 3, under the auspices Of the
Bluffton Presbyterian Talent pro-
gram.
As plans for the auction took shape
this week, the early rush of commit
ments on the part of those willing to
make donations or contribute items
to be sold on a percentage basis, in
dIcated the sale would be the largest
OF its kind ever held in this area.
Headline features to be offered in
the auction will include new Chev-
rolet automobile; a new Ford Fergus
on tractor with plow; new garden
tractor, and new Hotpoint refriger-
ator.
All of these are in the class of ex-
tremely hard-to-get items, as the re-
suit of long lists of prospective post
war purchasers, but in view of the
total aggregate of products offered
for sale they comprise only minor
portion of the actual auction offer
N ~%NN ~Ne'~~ .
ings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Real Estate Deals

Zanna and Ray Staater have sold
to the Bluffton Telephone company
the vacant space fronting Church
street between the rear of the Gratz
dry goods store and the alley. Mau
rice Mahoney, local manager of the
company said the first Of the week
he has received no word as to what
the company expects to do with the
real estate.
Emerson Lugibihl of East Elm
street has purchased the Roy Mar
shall farm of 80 acres in Orange
township and expects to move this
week.
Stevens Smith, manager of the Al
len County Farm Bureau Coopera-
tive here has purchased the Emerson
Lugibihl property on East Elm street
and expects to move next week, va
eating the first floor of the former
p. E. Whitmer property at Jackson
and Franklin streets recently pur-
chased by Ed Waltermire, Bluffton
retailer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waltermire expect
to move the first of next month into
their property, occupying the first
floor which will be vacated by Smith
and his family.
Mrs. Wayne Lugibhl has sold her
property in the Fred Mueller addi-
tion on East jefferson street to the
Allen county commissioners and left
for Englewood, Calf, to join her
husband who is employed as q ma
chinist at that place. The property
viii be occupied under provisions Of
the G. / housing program BY Wilson
Mas and family who are moving
here from Lima Mas recently ae-
cented position az office manager
Of the Allen County Farm Bureau
Cooperative here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Lush Stand Of Wheat This Spring Is
Bright Spot In District Farm Picture
Schools Closed Last
Week Reopen Monday

Blufften's high and grade schools
re-opened Monday after having been
closed last week by county health
authorities following outbreaks of
scarlet fever and measles.
Evelyn Erwin, county health nurse
said there were rs absentees in the
grades and % in the high school
Monday morning, not all of which
were due to illness, which appar-
emily reached its peak last week
and now is subsiding. Unless new
developments arise, schools will re-
main in session, she said.
Gerhard Buhler, high school prin-
cipal is in charge of administration
of the schools during the absence OF
supt r, S. Lanharn who is quaran-
tined at his home where Mrs. Ian
,am is recovering from an attack oi
scarlet fever. Health authorities
said the quarantine will be lifted
April 25.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Remains OF Mrs. w. III.
ScOLes Coming To Ada

Remains of Mrs. W. H. Scoles, 90,
who died December 25 in Los An
geles will arrive in Ada on We'd
nesday, April 80, according to word
received Tuesday by Mrs. Emmett
Scoles of near Beaverdam.
The late Mrs. Scoles formerly re-
sided on what is now the Bert
Leatherman farm northeast of Beay-
erdam.
Accompanying the body will be
her son-in-Iaw and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. John Scott of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Scott is the former Zoe Scoles.
The body will remain at an Ada
funeral home until time for the
services to be held at Pleasant Hill
church, Friday afternoon, May 2 at
2 o'clock. The pastor, Rev. Fauver,
will officiate. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17

Among other items viii be a huge
display. Of used and new furniture
Of every kind, new tires, electric
irons, electric sewing machine, tool
boxes, a ton Of coal, an electric mo-
tor, baking oven, fuel tanks, kitchen
cabinets, radios, a new bicycle, a
home frozen food locker, radio test
equipment, an outdoor grill, farm
implements, horse collars and a hot
water tank.
Endorsement of the auction as an
advertising medium and sales promo
tion venture for the town has been
made by the Bluffton Business Mems
association, and merchants are coop
Grating in the consigning of merchan-
disc to be offered for sale.
Articles will be sold on commits
sion basis or as a donation, whichever
plan is agreeable to the owners, it
was pointed out.
Participation is open to all resi-
dents of the area having new or used
articles for sale, including furniture,
livestock, farm produce, household
appliances, etc.
Items to be offered for sale are to
be listed with Clair Fett, chairman of
the auction committee, and may be
left at the Bluffton Slaw Cutter
building on Saturday afternoons.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Northwest Ohio District Audi
tions at High School
Next Week
Band, Orchestra and Choral
Groups Will Be Entered
In Competition

Competition in the Northwestern
Ohio High School Music Additions,
to be held here under auspices of the
Bluffton college department of music,
will bring approximately 1000 high
school pupils to Bluffton on Satur-
day, April 26.
Competitors from approximately
40 schools will compete in choral,
band and orchestra groups in the
all-day meet here, Morning, after
noon and evening sessions will be
held.
There will be no solo or ensemble
competition in the Bluffton addition.
Students in those classes viii COM
pete at Bowling Green university
this coming Saturday. Winners will
go to Columbus later in the spring
for the state contest.
USE AUDIToRIUM- GYMNASIUM
In the auditorium here, vocal
groups will compete in the high
school auditorium, and bands and
orchestras will play in the school
gymnasium. No further competition
will be scheduled for winners.
Prof. Russell A. Lantz, director
of the college department of music,
Is directing the addition and will
serve as chairman for the all-day
meet. ~"'-~~e-~~@g~'~.
Judges include the following:
Choral: Ellis Snyder, Capital uni
versity; Dale Gilliland, Ohio State
university; and Daniel Harris, Ober-
lin Conservatory of Music.
Band and Orchestra: Arthur Will
liams, Oberlin Conservatory of Mu-
sic; Ernest Manring, Cleveland, and
Roy Metcalf, Kent State university.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
NeIU Office Manager
At Farm Bureau Here

The Allen Farm Bureau Coopera-
tive announce that Wilson "Bill''
Mas Of Lima has joined the or
ganization as bookkeeper and man.
ager of the office in Bluffton.
Mas was born in Cairo and grad
uated from Columbus Grove high
school and Northwestern School of
Commerce. He recently returned
from five years in the army where
he held the rank of master sergeant
in the A. G. d.
He and his family will occupy the
former Wayne Lugibihl property in
the Fred Mueller addition on East
Jefferson street. The residence, re-
Gently purchased by the Allen cou-
ty commissioners was made avail
able to Mas under provisions of the
G, I. housing program.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
.COTTERMAN HIRED
FOR THREE YEAR
TERM As COACH
Board Of Education Takes Ac-
tion at Special Meeting
Tuesday Night
Athletic Mentor Made 0utstand-
ing Record with Teams
Here Past Year

Kent Cotterman, 27, Bluffton high
school athletic coach and physical ed
ucation director was re-hired under
terms of a three year contract at a
special meeting of the board of edu-
cation Tuesday night at an annual
salary of $4,000.
Cotterman is completing his first
full year here as athletic coach dur
ing which time Bluffton teams made
athletic history by winning football
and basketball championships of the
Western Buckeye league.
The achievement, it is pointed out,
is all the more remarkable because of
the fact that BIuffton, with smaller
enrolment of Glass b school was
engaged in competition with larger
schools of Class A enrolment.
Outstanding Record
Cotterman's record here has made
him one of the outstanding athletic
coaches of Northwestern Ohio and
news of the boards action in rehiring
him on three year basis was receiv-
ed with satisfaction by sports follow
ers here.
Cotterman first came to Bluffton
in 1943 to take charge of spring
sports when George Swank, Jr., then
coach, was called into military ser
vice. At that time we was a student
in Ohio Northern university, Ada.
Later he was called into naval SER
vice from which he was released in
February of last year
His father, Hardin county school
superintendent, was formerly head of
the Alger schools.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Former BLuftOn
Girl Weds Ia Lima

Miss Betty Hahn, eldest daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Hahn,
former Bluffton residents and grand
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Hahn of West Elm street, became
the bride of Jack Strahm, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Strahm, OF
Lima, in an attractive spring we'd
ding at Wesley Methodist church in
Lima, Sunday.
Misses Barbara and 10 Anne
Hahn, sisters of the bride, were
bridesmaids, and another sister, Kar.
on Sue Hahn, was flower girl. The
Hahn family has lived in Lima foI
about eight years.
Following wedding trip to Flor
ida, the young couple will make
their home in Lima. The groom is
owner of a gasoline filling station
and the bride until recently worked
in the office of Feldman's depart.
ment store.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
R0naey-Basinger ;
NuptidIs Sunday

The home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. C.
Romey provided the setting for. the
wedding of their daughter, Carolyn,
and Stanley Basinger, son of DR..
and Mrs. Francis Basinger, Sunday
afternoon at 1880 o'clock.
An arrangement of white gladioli,
roses and snapdragons formed an
attractive background for the nup-
tials. Members Of the immediate
families were present for the cere-
mony performed by the Rev. Paul H.
Cramer, chaplain in World War II
and friend of the groom. Miss nellie
Lugibill of Cleveland, attended Miss
Romey as maid of honor, and DR..
Wade Basinger of Philadelphia act
ed as best man for his brother.
An aqua two-piece suit was worn
by the bride. Her accessories We're
in cinnimon shade and her corsage
was cattelya orchids. Miss Lugibill
wore tan plaid suit with corsage
of chestnut brown orchids.
Following the ceremony a recep-
ton was held for several hundred
guests. The bridal table in the din
ing room was centered with a TERED
wedding cake wreathed in greenery
After an eastern wedding trip Mr.
and Mrs. Basinger will reside in
Bluffton.
The bride was graduated from
Bluffton college and member OF
Pi Delta scholastic honorary society
At present Mrs. Basinger is EN-
ployed at the Citizens National bank
Mr.. Basinger, a graduate of Bluff
ton college and Ohio State univers.
ity, served 32 months with the army
in the European theatre, and is af,
filiated with Phi Kappa Sigma fra
ternity. He is a funeral director ir
Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
FORMER PASTORS
WIFE BADLY HURT
In AUTO CRASH
Mrs. Arthur Albro i'm Ft. Wayne
Hospital with Fractured
Arms
Driver of Car Instantly Killed
As Truck Crashes Into
Automobile

Mrs. Arthur Albro, 5S, whose hus,
band. was formerly pastor of the
Missionary church here is in a ser,
ious condition in the Lutheran hos.
pital, Ft. Wayne, as the result OF
injuries sustained in an automobile
accident last Thursday night in
which the driver of the car in which
she was riding was instantly killed
Her husband, also a passenger in
the car escaped with minor injuries
Mrs. Albro sustained fractures OF
both arms, head injuries and lacer.
ations of the face.
The accident occurred in a driving
rainstorm at 10:30 o'clock. Rev
and Mrs. Albro and Ralph Bailey
Il, all of Royal Oak, Mich, and Rev
and Mrs. Joseph Shisler Of Detroit
were returning from a church con
ference in Peoria, Ill.
The fatality occurred 18 miles
east of Ft. Wayne when two trucks
sideswiped and one jackknifed anG
crashed into the passenger car hurl.
ing it into six foot ditch at the
side Of the road. Bailey, driver and
owner of the car, died instantly OF
a fractured skull.
The two. ministers and their
wives were hospitalized in Ft. Wayne
from which the men were released
after their injuries were found moi
serious.
Mrs. Shisler, the most seriously
injured of the four sustained a skull
fracture, broken ribs and internal
injuries. She was placed in an oxy.
gen tent
Rev. Albro and Rev Shisler are
remaining in Ft. Wayne with their
wives for the present. Rev. Albro
postor of the Missionary church in
Ft. Wayne was pastor of the Mis-,
sionary church here until three
years ago when he was succeeded by
Rev. Robert WEIGH, the present pas
tor.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
S. SENIORS WILL
GRADUATE At HIGH
SCHOOL ON may n
DR.. ]. Z. Hartzler to Deliver
Class Address at Com
mencement
Rev. Howard Landes to Deliver
Baccaiaureate Sermon
May Is

Bluffton High School will have a
class of So graduates-27 girls and
2S boys-at commencement exercises
to be held Thursday night May p,
according to a tentative list of grad
uating seniors announced this week
by school authorities.
DR.. John E. Hartzler, Bluffton res
ident while he was president of Wit
marsum Theological seminary here,
will be the class speaker. Baccalau-
reate services to be held Sunday
night, May Is, preceding commence
ment will be addressed by Rev. How
ard Landes, pastor of the Ebenezer
Mennonite church.
Mary Kathryn Bauman is class
valedictorian and Alice Ruth Panna-
becker is the salutatorian. Selection
is based on scholarship standing.
The tentative graduating list in
cludes the following seniors:
Harriet Ann Amstutz, Bernice Lu-
cille Bauman, Mary Kathryn Bauman,
Elizabeth Ann Bixel, jeanne Airline
Buhler, Jean Anne Burcky, Joan
Burkholder, Helen w. Burkholder,
Catherine Ellen Bohn.
Phyllis Joan Clark, Colleen Rae
Goodman, Bonnie Gene Grismore, Jo-
anne w. Harmon, Sara Jane Huser,
Marjorie Louise Klay, Esther Ruth
Kohler.
Wanda Aleene Lehman, Eleanor
Linden, Peggy Jane Martin, Sara
Mae Oberly, Alice Ruth Pannabeck-
er, Pauline r. PurseII.
Elizabeth A. Schmidt, Patricia Ann
Schmidt, Gloria June Sechler, Wanda
Marie Tschiegg, Imogene E. Wenger.
John j. Althaus, Harold Edwin Am
stutz, Malcolm Basinger, Howard Ell
don Beery, Paul Don Bixel, Keith
Branen.
Harry James Criblez, Robert N.
Coon, Ray Edward Grouse, Kenneth
Lane Finton, Don jamie Fritchie,
Karl Nelson Frick, Morris Joseph
Groman, Bill Herbert Haller, Lyman
Keith Hofstetter.
Ronald Keith Kirkland, Richard A.
Kuhn, James Hubert Lewis, ROLAND
Ray Luginbuhl, James Emerson Mes
singer, Larry Miller, Richard De-
Wayne Newlan.
Maynard Pogue, Michael Fl. Rea-
gan, Cornelius Schmidt, w. Wayne
Sommer, Richard Kent Stonehill,
Robert Edwin Which.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Cuban Speaker VIII
Address PresbyteridI

DR.. Emilio Rodriguez Busto, sup
erintendent of the Presbyterian
schools in Cuba will be the principal
speaker at the annual spring meet
ing of Lima Presbyterial to be held
in the Bluffton Presbyterian church
Wednesday of next week.
He will speak in ths afternoon
session open to the public at 900
o'clock on educational conditions in
Cuba.
About $50 women from the 26
churches in Lima Presbytery are
expected to attend the meeting here,
Sessions will open in the morning at
10 o'clock and in the afternoon at
lis.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
High School Music
Program April Is

Bluffton high school music talent
will appear in a program at the
auditorium Friday night, April 25
at 8 p. m, under direction of John
Martin, music supervisor
Numbers will be given by the
mixed chorus and boys and girls glee
clubs together with solists who will
compete in the northwest district
music contest to be held at Bowl
ing Green State university this Sat
urday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
British Woman To
Lecture In Lima

Mrs. Rose Buckner of London,
England, will speak in Lima at st.
Marks Methodist church, formerly
Grand Avenue Methodist, next Tues
day night at o'clock on the subject
Church and Religion in Britain and
the British Home"
Mrs. Buckner, frequently heard in
radio broadcasts from London dur
ing the war is accompanied by her
three children ON a lecture tour.
Her appearance next Tuesday night
is under auspices of Lima Chapter
of the Mailbag club. Tickets may
be obtained from Mrs. H. E. Augs-
burger.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Lima Pastor To Speak
At Youth Meet Sunday

Rev. Warren Bright, pastor of st.
Marks Methodist church, Lima, viii
address a meeting sponsored by the
Bluffton Youth Federation in the
Methodist church here Sunday night
at $50 o'clock. All teenagers are
invited.
This is the first of series of
youth programs to be held monthly
in churches here.
Rev. Bright, a leader in young
peoples work is dean of the Metho-
dist Young Peoples institute at
Lakeside. The theme of his subject
Sunday night, Striking Twelve
will be carried out through the pro.
gram, talks and refreshments.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Crop Comes Thru Critical
Freezing and Thawing Sea-
son Unharmed
Outlook One of Best in Recent
Years; Acreage is sat-
isfactory

This springs lush stand of wheat,
one of the most satisfactory in
recent years, is being eyed by
farmers of the Bluffton district as
one of the few bright spots in ar
otherwise none too promising crop
outlook due to the backwardness ot
the season.
With the latter part of April a
hand, this years wheat crop ha.
come through the spring season witt
virtually no damage from the alter.
mating freezing and thawing weather
usually encountered in March, ano
the stand appears to be cne of the
best in many seasons.
Heavy SHOWS covered wheat fields
thruout most of March this year
and the hazard of roots being ex-
posed to variable weather, a factor
which so often wrecks bumper crop
prospects, was not at all apparent
this spring.
Wheat acreage in the area is
estimated at average, or slightly
greater than usual, another cause OF
satisfaction on the part of farmers
who have been held up by the late
arrival of spring in getting at their
blowing and in sowing oats.
Equally satisfactory from the
farm viewpoint is the price situa,
ton. Wheat this week was quoted
at S2.65 a bushel by local markets
Altho this price is expected to
decline when next summers harvest
is started, nevertheless farmers
believe the world demand for wheat
will sustain a comparatively high
level of prices thru the harvest sea.
son.
On the more unfavorable side OF
the farm picture, the lateness of the
spring season, with water-loggec
ground delaying spring tillage unit
this week, has resulted in revampec
plans for farm crops.
Acreage which had been allotted
to oats in particular is being diverted
to other crops or will be allowed
to grow up in grass for pasture.
Farm observers point out thai
with less than two weeks remaining
in April, by far the greater part o.
spring tillage, usually out of the
way by this time, remains to b.
done. Conservative estimates arr
that spring work generally will b
from three to four weeks late.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard cookson,
Bluffton, boy, Wednesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. seyer, Colum.
bus Grove, boy, Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Bixel, La.
fayette, girl, Shirley Elaine, Mon.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleo Garau, Bluff.
ton, a boy, Stephen Karl, Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard slygh, Ar.
lington, boy, Edward Eugene, las
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Conaway
Bluffton, girl, Cheryl Lee, las
Wednesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
1000 Students Will Compete In
Music Additions Here On April rs
Three Birthdays
In Cooks0n Family
Occur On April 16

THIS Wednesday, April 16, is
= birthday day in the Richard
Cookson family of South jackson
street. A boy as yet unnamed
was born at Bluffton hospital
early Wednesday morning to Mr..
and Mrs. Ceoksen on the moth
er's 26th birthday.
And just TO make the coinci-
dence all the more unusual, the
day also is the 2Sth birthday of
the baby's aunt, Mrs. Charles
Patterson, the former Carol
CooksOn of Huntington, w. Va.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
SPRING FLOWING
HERE HALTED BY
RAIN AND SNOW
Farmers Unable to Get Into
Fields Before First Of Next
Week.
Iillage Started in Some Spots
Early This Week Stopped
Wednesday.

Spring tillage which got under
way in spots in the BIufTton area
Monday and Tuesday was effectually
halted by rain Tuesday night follow
ed by snow on Wednesday. The
ground which was getting into condi-
tion for plowing is again so water
logged that work in the fields will
be stymied at least for the remand
er of this week.
With tillage operation at a stand
still until the first of next week at
the earliest, there will remain only
ten days in April for spring plow-
ing, which ordinarily would have
been done the latter part of March.
With weather conditions favorable
for work in the fields Monday and
Tuesday for the first time this
spring, farmers whose land was In
condition for tillage made the most
of the opportunity, working from
dawn to dusk with tractor-powered
plows.
POTATO PLANTING STARTS
Center of activity the first of this
week was in the sandy loan area
northwest of Bluffton, extending to
Pandora, in which excellent working
conditions were reported.
In that section. some planting al
ready has been done, with early po-
tatoes in the ground on some farms.
With oats seeding delayed by a
month, and corn planting time COM
ing up in another four weeks, farm
ers viii be pushed to cope with the
rush of spring tillage activity brot
about by inclement weather this
spring.
Unfavorahle conditions not only
kept farmers out of their fields
throughout February and March, but
. continuation Of the same weather
further delayed start Of work dur
ing the first two weeks of this
month.
About the only favorable aspect
of the cold, wet spring is the fruit
outlook, for with budding held back
by weather conditions there should
be no danger of frost by the time
trees are in blossom. This is in
contrast to last spring when the
Bluffton district fruit crop was lost
in q late freeze, after trees bios
somed in early April
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Philosophical Writer
At College Vespers

DIR. D. Elton Trueblood, professor
Of philosophy at Earlham college
and well-known philosophical
writer, will be the speaker at Bluff
ton college vesper services at p
m. next Sunday in Ramseyer chapel
His subject viii be "A New Pat.
tern of Living"
Or. Trueblood received his Ph. D
degree at Johns Hopkins, and in
addition has been fellowship
student in England He is co-editol
Of .The Friend Magazine" published
in Philadelphia.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-04-17
Cmetdker For Harmon
Field Hired By Board

Stanley Stauffer, Bluffton college
student, was hired as caretaker for
Harmon field at special meeting
of the Bluffton board of education,
Tuesday night. He was hired for a
five months period, April | to Octo-
Der 81 at salary of $50 per month.