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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
st. John Mennonite Church Will
Observe 6Oth Anniversary Sunday


Mr.. and Mrs. Cloyce Bame of JEFF
ferson street who are having a pub
lie sale Friday night are moving
Saturday to Xenia. They sold their
property here last spring to Gene
Mericle. Mr.. Bame who had been i'll
of heart ailment is improved.
At their new location Mrs. Bame
will be associated with her brother
in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Gueltig, florists, operating in Xenia
and Dayton.
Their elder daughter, Miss Carol
Bame will leave for San Diego,
Calf, where she has accepted a po-
sition as instructor i'm an elementary
school. The younger daughter, Jua-
nita will return to Bowling Green
State university this fall where she
is a senior.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
START DRILLING
SECOND OIL WELL
NORTH or TOWN
Derrick Is Completed For Test
Well On w. 6 Carr Farm,
Three Miles North
Drilling Financed BY Same IN
terests Which Put Down Well
On Boehr Farm Last Fall

Another attempt to locate oil in
the district three miles west of
Bluffton on the College road, once a
major-producing area at the turn of
the century, was launched this week
with the start Of drilling operations
on the w. G. Carr farm.
The well on the Carr farm, adja-
cent to College road, is the second
financed in the same district during
the last year by Findlay and Toledo
interests.
Last fall, 1325-foot we'll was put
down on the John Boehr farm, about
one-half mile south Of the Carr
location. Gas and 4 trace of oil were
found, but the we'll never was shot.
Start Second Well
In hopes Of reyiving the area as
a major oil producing district, the
second well was Started this week,
following erection ef derrick and
installation Of steam engine and
other equipment.
Two good wells were near the Carr
farm during the oil boom of 1899
One was on the adjacent farm oi
Chris Zimmerly, now owned by
Homer, Leonard and Arden Zimmer,
ly. The other was gas producing
we'll on the Isaac Habegger farm
Location of this years test we'll is
between the two pumped at the turn
of the century, and about 800 feet
from the old Zimrnsrly well.
Drilling this summer is the SECOND
of the past year in the form of {
test well, financed by Findlay anC
Toledo capital, which has LEASED
drilling rights to some 1900 acre.
Of adjoining farmland.
Although oil was found in tn,
area about so Years ago, wells soor
were ahandonsef because the lop
price of oil at that time made oper
ations improbable.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
BtuftOn Youth On
Stock Judging Team,

Harry Burkholder, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Quentin Burkholder, north of
Bluffton on the county line has been
named a member Of the Allen Coun-
ty All team to compete for livestock
judging honors at the state fair next
week.
Burkholder is one of three youths
making highest marks in the county
contest last week. Other members
are VIM. Feigh, Lima, and Barnard
Beckman, Delphos.
At the state fair they will COM
pete for honors in livestock judging
against teams from every county in
the state.
The high scoring county team will
receive $3.50 toward their expenses
to Chicago to participate in the ma
tional non-collegiate judging contest.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Bluffton Scorches In 97-Degree Heat
Wednesday, Hottest For This Summer

Thermometers hit 81 degrees We'd
nesday noon for the hottest weather
of tie summer-the top registering
one degree more than Tuesdays max
imum with no relief in sight.
A southerly breeze blowing inter
mittently since the first of the week
has pushed heat into the Bluffton
area on scale unprecedented this
summer which until this time has
been comparatively mild.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
NeuenschUander Is
. Scholarship Winner

Arthur A. Neuenschwander, an
honor graduate of Bluffton High
school, has been announced as the
winner Of a $500 scholarship to Ohio
State university, where he will en-
roll as an agriculture student this
fall.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Neuenschwander, of west of
town. During seven years of All
club work he has specialized in feed
ing steers which have been shown
at the Cleveland Livestock exposition
and the International in Chicago.
His entries were awarded 26 ribbons,
including three receiving champion
ships.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
AGE BRACKET TO
Determine DATE
FOR REGISTERING
Oldest Group Included in Selec-
tive Service Act to Register
First
Registration of Younger Groups
to Continue Through
September Is

Dates by age bracket were fixed
by President Truman in his procla-
nation setting registration of young
men between the ages of Is to 26
from August 30 until September Is.
All men born in 1922 after Aug
ust 80 will register ON August 30,
and the proclamation also fixes the
following dates for the registration
of other youths:
/. Persons born in the year 1923
August 81, and September /.
2. Persons born in 1924; Septem.
Der 2, and September 3.
3. Persons born in the year 1925
September 4 or September 7.
4. Persons born in the year 1926
September Sth-9th.
5. Persons born in the year 1927
September 10th-11th.
6. Persons born in the year 1928;
September 13th-14th.
7. Persons born in the year 1929;
September 15th-16th.
s. Persons born In 1880 before
September 10; September 17th-18th
Boys born on or after September
10, 1880, under the proclamation
will be registered on the day they
are Is years old or within five day.
thereafter:
Although young men IS years oi
age will not be subject to the draft
until they become 10 years of age
they have the privilege of enlistinl
for military srvice for a period o.
one year. That service would in
clude training in this country, anC
no overseas duty, it is stated En-
hstments may be made at any re
cruiting office.
Maj. Gen. Lewis r. Hershey, ma
tional director of selective servic
under the law passed by the 80t
congress, has stated that men will
be drafted by age groups, with mel
% down through p taken first il
the initial six months of the pro
gram.
Under the law actual drafting can
not start until September p.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Each Draftee To Fill Out Answers
To Sixteen Questions On Simple Form
TUO Hurt Slightly
In Mishdp On Lincoln

Albert Myerson, %, Atlantic City,
n. J. and Martin Thuerk, 10, Chicago,
escaped with minor injuries at 5:45
p. m. last Friday wren their automo-
bile was demolished in a crash on the
Lincoln highway near the Bentley
road intersection.
Myerson received treatment at
Bluffton community hospital for an in
jured shoulder, and Thuerk received
first aid for a hand injury. They
were taken to the hospital in the Dill
Ter ambulance, and released following
treatment
The two were travelling east, en-
route to Myerson's home when their
car crashed.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Bell Likely Will Remain In Grade
- School Belfry, Board Members Say

After two weeks of uncertainty
regarding the future of Bluffton's
65-year-old grade school bell develop
ments this week indicated that it
likely will continue to hang in the
belfry without being removed.
No proposals have been received
relative to removal of the bell, de
scribed as a job of some magnitude,
and the expense of taking it from
the building likely would be much
greater than again safely anchoring
it in its moorings.
Members Of the board of education
said there had been no takers of an
offer to give the bell free of charge
to anyone removing it. Neither has
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26

informal recommendation that the
old bell be preserved as a relic pro
duced any logical proposal regarding
its removal from the tower.
A meeting of the board of educa-
ton to be held Friday night, post
poned from last Monday, likely will
write the last act in the school bell
case, and ,spokesmen said Tuesday
that it appears as if the bell will
remain in its present location.
At the same time it was pointed
out that intermittent ringing of the
bell should be expected within the
next two weeks, as contractors make
tests to determine the extent of work
required to again anchor It safely.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Putnam, Polio Epidemic
Reaches Pandora Area

Putnam county's polio epidemic
reached the Pandora area last week
when Harold Steiner, 20, who lives
two miles southeast of the town, was
taken to Lima Memorial hospital on
Thursday for treatment
Improvement was reported this
week in his condition, although he
remains in the hospital isolation
ward.
Steiner is married and the father
Of two children. He is the son of
Clarence Steiner.
At the close of last week, Putnam
county had 27 polio cases; more per
capita than any other county in Ohio,
Two have been fatal.
In view of the spread of the cpl
demic, opening of Putnam county
schools has been postponed until
September Is, upon recommendation
of DIR. Fl. A. Neiswander, county
health commissioner.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Amstutz Hdtcheries
STAFF At School

Clarence Amstutz, Noah Zimmer-
man, Jr., and Manager E. J. Wahlie,
staff of the Amstutz Hatcheries,
Bluffton and Pandora, have returned
from the Gath annual flock selecting,
culling and pullorum testing school
being held this week by the poultry
husbandry department at Ohio State
university.
instruction at the school is hand
led by the regular faculty of the de-
partment, plus other professors from
Cornell university and representa-
tives of the State Poultry Associa-
ton of Indiana and the Ohio Poultry
Improvement association.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Condition Of Polio
Patient Improving

Improvement is reported in the
condition of Sue, seven-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Kent
Hauenstein, of Marion, polio pa
tient at Children's hospital, Column
bus.
Sue is the granddaughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar Hauenstein, of South
Jackson street.
The child, who became i'll two
weeks ago, has been removed from
the isolation ward, it was reported,
and is on the road to recovery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Snavely, Bluff
ton, girl, Dona Marie. last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jewell Suter, Pan
dora, boy, James Lee, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Everett, Bluff
ton, a boy, Richard Wayne, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Saltz, Mt.
Cory, a girl, Pamela Kay, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Wiess, Bluff
ton, boy, David. Frederick, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lafferty,
Arlington, boy, Jon Alan, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Reamsnyder,
Arlington, boy, Robert Dean, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice strahm,
Bluffton, a boy, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Simeox, Gil
boa, a boy, James Robert, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Crawford,
Williamstown, q girl, Loretta Kay,
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Smith, Harrod,
q boy, Jerry Ray, Tuesday.
=
Mr.. and MRS. r. B. Wiess, Marion,
Ohio, q girl, Ellen Roberta, born at
Marion City hospital, August Il.
Mrs. Wiess is the former Laveta
Clymer Of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Hold FIOUer SHOIU
Here Friday, Sept. 3

A flower exhibit sponsored by the
Bluffton Garden club will be held i'm
the Methodist church parlors, Fri
day, Sept. from 2 to 10 p. m.
Mrs. ]. S. Steiner is general chair
man.
Entries are open without charge
to anyone interested. A new feature
is the junior display open to child
rem to IL years of age. Their ex-
hibits may be miniatures, an ar
rangement description of the title of
a child's book or general arrange
ment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
REGISTRATION FOR
new DRAFT BEGINS
AT LIMA MONDAY
Allen County Youths is Through
25 VIII Register In Old
Postoffice Building
Classes of Deferment Announc-
ed by President For Guidance
of Draft Board

Registration of men IS through 25
for the new 21-month peacetime draft
will start next Monday and continue
through September Is at Allen county
selective service headquarters in the
old postoffice building at Lima.
All men born after August 80,
1922, will be required to register on
Monday; and those born in the year
1928 must register next Tuesday and
Wednesday,.
The complete table of registration
dates for other age brackets appears
elsewhere in this issue.
Classification questionnaires will go
to all registrants after registration
is completed, with the exception of
those vino are IS years old, it was
announced. Youths of 18 are not ELI
gible for the draft, but must be
registered.
Call By Age Groups
In calling up candidates for draft
there win be no lottery involved as
during World War II, it was announc-
ed. Instead the call to uniform will
be determined by classification, de-
termined by the local board, and by
age groups. Oldest men will be taken
first, according to announced induction
plans.
The law passed by Congress auto
matically exempts war veterans who
have at least 90 days service between
Pearl Harbor and VI Day, or with
IL months service between Sept. 16,
1910, and June "a, 1948, the day the
draft law went into effect.
Also exempt are ordained minis
ters, students studying for the minis
try and conscientious objectors (from
combatant service.)
Completing the list of automatic
deferments are high school students
up to graduation or the age Of 20;
and college students for the rest of
the academic year.
Deferments Set
Inc FTeSluenL IaSI week also uS-
ferred others, including: ia, men
involved in study, research or medical,
scientific or other endeavors consider
ed necessary to the national health,
safety or interest. These deferments
will be for one year or less, and may
be changed by the President or by
local boards.
II-C-Farm workers or men en-
gagged in agricultural occupation. The
same deferment period and qualifca-
tions prevail.
III-A-Anyone with dependents
including a wife, divorced wife, child,
parent, brother or sister. Men mar
ried between now and registration
periods will be exempt, officials said
WA registrant who has COM
pleted service and those who are sole
surviving sons.
IV-B-Almrst all public officials
elected to office.
Other classes of deferment were
for aliens, ministers of religion, con-
scientious objectors, physically, men
tally or morally unfit, registrants
over age for the liability of military
service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26

Farmers, however, say that wealth
er such as this is what Is needed to
mature the corn crop which promises
to be one of the best ever grown in
this area.
As for relief, the best the Ohio
weatherman at Columbus could pre-
dict is possible scattered showers
Thursday afternoon and increased
humidity.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) - Wheat
S2.O6; corn s1.80; oats re; soys
$2.45.
Poultry-Heavy hens 32c; leghorn
hens soc; heavy broilers 40c; leghorn
broilers 35c.
Eggs-Large white 54c; large
brown SIC; medium, white Ate;
medium brown 45c; pullets 37c.
Buttarfat-T2c.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26

Mrs. ]. S. Slabaugh, wife of DR..
Slabaugh, president of the Bluffton
college board of trustees, died Mon
day morning at her home in Nap
panee, Indiana. She was a mem
Der of the women's advisory board
to the college trustees.
Those from Bluffton attending fun
eral services at Nappanee, Wednes-
day afternoon included DR.. and Mrs.
J. S. Schultz, DR.. L. L. Ramseyer,
DR.. N. E. Byers, Miss M'DelIa Moon,
Prof. Paul Shelley, and Rev. Harry
Yoder.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Card Four by Six Inches to be
Sent to Every Registrant
for Draft
Little Time Will be Required to
Fill Out Form, Officials
Predict

Sixteen questions on a simplifed
form must be answered by men 18
through p in registering for the
new 21-month peacetime draft.
Cards measuring four by six
inches will be used for the registra-
tion, and officials predict that the
procedure is so simplifed that reg
istrants can answer the 16 questions
in a matter of minutes.
The registration cards do not re-
quire fingerprints, nor do they ask
whether a man is a Communist.
These are the questions, in case
you want to study up in advance:
Is QUESTIONS
Name. 2-Place of residence.
3-Mailing address. 4-Name, ad-
dress of person who will always
know your address. 5-Date of
birth. 6-Place of birth (city, state,
country, and Occupation,
8-Firm or individual by whom
employed. 9-Nature of business,
service rendered, or chief product.
10-Place of employment or business.
11-Local board with which regis
tered under Selective Training and
Service Act of 1910. 12-Were you
ever registered for service in the
armed forces? (Yes? No? When?)
13-Marital status. Living with
wife? Divorced? Separated? Wi
dover? Father
PRIOR SERVICE
14-Active duty in the armed
forces of the United States or a CO.
beliggerent nation since Sept. Is,
1910 (under this, if you qualify, you
fill i'm the branch of service, your
service or serial number, date of
entry, name of last organization,
date of separation.)
15-Present membership in a re
serve component of the armed forces
(and you list the branch Of service
service o. serial number, date q
entry, grade and organization.)
CLASSIFICATION NEXT
16-Color of eyes, color of hair
complexion, height, weight, race
other obvious physical characteristics
that will aid in Identification.
Then you sign it, and the regis.
trar for your local board will sigr
it and put in the date, county, city
and state.
After registering, draft-age mer
will wait for classification forms
which should be received within q
week or two. These are much more
detailed, and must be returned with,
in 10 days.
A mans classification is deter.
mined by local boards from these
second forms.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
EdIUard LugibiN Hurt
In Mishdp In Lima

Edward Lugibill, 81, of Bluffton,
suffered decorations on the head, face
and arms at $50 a. m. Monday when
the car in which he was a passenger
was involved in a three-car collision
in LIMA.
Taken to Lima st. Rita's hospital
for treatment, he later was released
and returned to his home here.
According to police reports, Luigi
bill was passenger in a car driven
by Fred c. Skidmore, also of Bluff
ton; when it was struck by another
vehicle.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Local Mans Wid0lU
Dies In NelU Orleans

Word was received here this week
of the death of Mrs. Epsie Steiner,
widow of Gideon Steiner, a native of
Bluffton who had lived in New Or
leans for many years prior to his
demise.
Mrs. Steiner, who died Monday at
her New Orleans home, was bur-
led at that place Tuesday. She
and her husband often visited here
in the past. She was a native of
Nashville, Tenn.
She is survived by three sons :
Fritz, Gideon, Jr., and Allen, all of
New Orleans.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Wade MInln1d On
Purdue Honor List

Wade E. Mumma, son of Carl
Mumma, Bluffton, was among 1772
to win honors on the distinguished
student list of Purdue University for
the second semester of the past aca-
-demic year, according to a list re-
leased from the office of c. E. Dam
mon, registrar and director of ad-
missions.
To attain this honor, a student
must have attained a grade-point
index average of five or better in all
subjects carried during the semes-
ter.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26
Farmer Ldcerates
Hand In Accident

Dwight Frantz, Union township
farmer, suffered decorations and a
broken bone in his left hand as the
result of an accident while repairing
a pump at his home north of Bluff
ton, Monday
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-26

Bluffton Business Mems association
meeting in the council room this
Wednesday night at 7s30 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-29

Gene Mccarthy and Tommy Far
rell are pair of alert young men
who take great delight in the satiri-
cally comic writings OF Playwright
Max Schulman. Since MIR. Schulz
man Is the author Of the turn
Messrs. Mccarthy and Farrell cur
rently are performing in the Shore
ham Blue Room twice nightly, their
admiration lends a more-than-or-
binary quality Of enthusiasm to
their work. Their admiration Is
well deserved, too, Mr.. Schulman,
most recently noted for Barefoot
Boy With Cheek" being fast rlan
with a penetrating barb and deft
one with a subtle joke.
Mccarthy and Farrell are deft
ones with the delivery of the Schulz
man words, too, so the combination
turns out to be one of the happiest
things that could have happened to
cafe comedy. The field that fas-
cinated Author Schulman and made
him decide to try his hand at writ
ing for a night club comedy duo
was radio, target if ever there
was one. With Mccarthy and Far
rell impersonating a pair of disc
Jockeys, those programs larded with
commercials take quite beating.
The two toss back and forth ridi-
culous commercials so near to the
real thing that any radio executives
in their audience must blush with
shame. They, like all disc jockeys,
play records, which gives them an
opportunity to initiate, with hilari-
Gus results, such tidbits as the An
drews Sisters version of Sonny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-29

start today and will be held daily
from 8 to 4::30 pm. through next
Thursday. Object: The selection Of
entrants in a Miss Windsor Room
contest, the winner of which gets Il
Job as the Windsor Room singer
according to Mr.. Windsor.
Il II y Il
New Music Department:
Ethel Gunderson is the soloisi
now alternating with Bill Thomp-
sons trio in the Neptune Room en-
tertainment. She's a concert 2ian.
LIST who admires List and plays a
repertory that ranges from Bach tc
well, maybe even to Near You. .
By the way, whatever happened to
Near You?
The Anchor Room Of the An
napolis, which leans toward song
and piano duos, now has one-named
Estelle and Johnny. He's a Julliard
graduate and both sing, solo and in
duet. They've been a team two
years now. ever since Johrny fin
isbed four-year stretch i'll the Ma
rines and married the girl