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Alliance
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envisages a seven-nation unified
military strategic command under
an American commander in chief
They said it may be concluded by
mid-1949 and would guarantee each
country's territorial integrity in
event Of war, and give the North
American powers the right to es-
tablish air. land or sea bases in any
of the five countries. 1t would pro-
vide for Standardization of equip
ment and training.
Other Links Under Study.
Informants said the United States
may enter other associations with
North and South European states
to bolster the alliance. These
sources said links with Norway,
Denmark, Italy. Portugal, Spain,
Evening star., 1948-10-24
Campbell to Speak

Alexander Campbell, assistant at
torney general in charge of the
criminal division of the Justice De-
partment will speak at a dinner of
the Mems Club in the First Christian
Church of Alexandria, Raymond
and De Witt avenues, at pm. to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1948-10-24

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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Earl MOtter Heads
Community Institute

Election of officers for the coming
year was one of the highlights of
the closing session of Buttons an
nual two-day Community Institute,
last Thursday afternoon in the local
high school building.
In the two-day meeting, talks by
outstanding speakers, including
Joseph FIGHTER, state Grange master,
and varied entertaining features
were the principal items of interest
to farm and community residents,
New officers of the mems institute
group include Earl Motter, president;
Harry Anderson, secretary-treasurers
and the executive committee is COM
posed of Carl McCafferty, Francis
Basinger, Henry Huber and Truman
Bixel.
Officers of the women's institute:
Pres, Mrs. Gerhard Buhler; vice
pres, Mrs. Ezra Moser; seq, Mrs.
Andrew Hochstettler.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Mayor Orders Arrest Of Motorists
Driving Over Hose Lines At Fires

Bluffon authorities Monday night
were ordered by the mayor to crack
down on interference with municipal
tiremen, by arresting motorists who
drive their cars over fire hose and
who park or drive in the same block
where fire trucks are in operation.
Rigid enforcement of ordinances
covering the violations was set up
after Fire Chief Guy Corson ap-
peared before council at its Monday
meeting, to report that the actions
of motorists chasing to fires not only
interferes with firemen but that
damage to hose often results when
cars are driven over the lines.
State ordinances prohibit motorists
from parking or driving in the same
block where fire trucks are at work,
crossing hose lines with their We
hicles, or of following fire apparatus
at a distance of closer than 500
feet.
Regular Bluffton police officials
assisted by deputized firemen will
enforce the breakdown order, and vi
olaters will be arrested, the mayor
warned.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Application For State Bonus
May Be Made After March |

Application forms for Ohio state
bonus payments to war veterans will
be available on March l through
county service organizations, it was
announced last week by Chester w.
Goble, state bonus director.
War veterans may apply for the
bonus payment as soon as forms are
available, and payments will be made
on FIRST come-first served basis,
Goble said. He declined to name
the date payments will begin.
First application may be made
only by living veterans, and sur
viyors' application forms will be is
sued later.
Under the states bonus plans,
Ohio veterans will receive $40 for
each month of domestic service and
sf5 for foreign service in World
War II, up to a maximum of s400.
The minimum payment will be $50.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
BLuftOn Man VIII
Lecture At o. s. Il.

Forrest Steinman of the Steinman
Bros. Lumber company here has been
chosen to address classes in the WIN
ter short course in lumber and al
lied subjects at Ohio State univers-
ity, Columbus, it was announced the
first of the week.
The course has been laid out by
the university in order to give young
men coming up in the lumber busi-
ness a practical background and
working knowledge of that field and
prominent lumber men throughout
the state are on the staff of lee
turers supplementing the regular
classroom instruction.
Steinman will speak on lumber
yard arrangement and sales display.
The company's yard and salesroom
here are among the most modern
and efficiently arranged in this sec
ton and frequently visited by lum-
bermen seeking ideas and sugges-
tions in that field.
Each year the company enrolls one
or more of their employees in the
course which continues throughout
the month of February. This year
Paul Reichenbach will go. Miss
Emma Dickman, clerical employe in
the office who previously took the
course was the first woman to be
enrolled.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
RECORD Low MARK
OF FIVE BELOW
ZERO WEDNESDAY
Coolest Weather of Winter
Grips BlufftOn Area This
Week
Cold Goes UnbrOken Into Third
Week; Winter Worst in
Three Years

January's wintry assault, giving
this area its coolest weather in
three years, continued into this week
after establishing a new low mark
of five below zero on Wednesday
morning, on the heels of the winters
heaviest snowfall.
Wednesday mornings drop in
temperature was one degree under
that recorded Sunday when the
mercury fell to four below for what
was at that time a record mark for
the winter.
The previous low, recorded a
week earlier, also on Sunday, had
been three below, and shivering
Bluffton residents looked back on the
record of an unbroken frigid wave
which has had the temperature be-
low, at or near the zero mark daily
for more than two weeks.
-AItho the winters low mark came
Sunday morning, last Saturdays
weather was the worst of the sea
son. With the thermometer never
climbing higher than nine degrees,
a strong northwest wind churned up
a snowstorm of blizzard proportions
thruout the day.
Approximately five inches of snow
fell from shortly before daybreak
until two hours after nightfall on
Saturday, and in some places drifts
two and three feet high were re-
ported.
Main highways generally were
clear of snow, altho a few secondary
roads were blocked by deep drifts.
The prolonged cold wave has
brought a renewed plea for home
owners to conserve on use of gas in
every way possible. Patrons have
been asked to shut off water heaters
and not to use stoves or ovens for
heating purposes. Industries for
nearly two weeks have been cut to
a minimum on gas fuel, with no
relief in sight until the Geld wave
subsidies.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Funeral On Friday
For LdntOn Henry

Lamon Henry, 81, retired farmer
of Orange township, died at 5:45
p. m. Tuesday in Lima Memorial
hospital. He suffered a stroke II
days ago.
Born Dec. %, 1886 in Orange
township, he was som of Mr.. and
Mrs. .Zachariah Henry. He married
Phoebe c. Woodruff who died in
1943. IN 1945 he married Miriam
Rice who survives with one son,
Leonard II. Henry, Route 8, Ada.
Also surviving are four grand
children, two sisters, Mrs. Eugene
George of Lima and Mrs. J. A.
Weaver, of Bryan, and one brother,
Lester of Forest.
Mr.. Henry was member of the
Bethel Church of Christ of Orange
township.
Rites will be held in the church at
2:30 p. m. Friday. Rev. C. D. Read
officiating. Burial will be in the
Hassen cemetery.
The body will be taken from the
Paul Diller funeral home, to the
residence Thursday afternoon.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Charter Membership of 90
Started Movement Here
April 26, 1919
Nearly Three Decades of Busy
Activity Backing Com
munity Projects

Looking back on nearly three
decades of achievement in social
service and community betterment,
Richland Grange, located three miles
south of Bluffton, will enter its 29th
year of rural community activity
next April.
Starting with a charter member
ship of SO when organization was
completed April 26, 1919, the grange
has grown to high mark of 372
members. During its period Of
greatest growth the grange at one
time elected 1os members at one
meeting. 7'@ 5g 9al
In the grange organizations first
four years of existence, meetings
were held in the Gratz school build
ing, but in 1922 the present grange
hall was completed at a cost of
$4,000. Land for the hall was donat-
ed by Andrew Gratz, and all work
on the building was donated by
members of the organization.
Pay OF Debt @ ~.r
Following dedication of the hall
by State Master Taber, the grange
Continued on page 81
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
LOW BID ON LIGHT
PLANT ADDITION IS
FIXED AT S3O,SOO
Bids of Four Contractors Range
From S30,S00 Low to High
Mark of S3S,700
Lima Contractors Bid Is Low
Beard Has 30 Days To Let
Contract

Bids ranging from $30,8O0 to
S3S,700 seeking the contract of con-
structing an addition to the Bluffton
municipal light plants boiler room
were opened Tuesday noon by the
board Of public affairs.
With r. III. Marker of the Toledo
firm OF Emery, Marker & Emery
engineering advisor to the board un-
able to attend the meeting because
of a business trip to Iowa, the four
bids received were taken under
advisement by the board, during
which time they viii be turned over
to Marker for review. Previous to
opening the bids Marker had estimat-
ed the cost of the work at $4,000.
The board e public affairs has 80
days to act on the contract bids,
Clerk Charles Emans said.
Linn Firm Low
The low bill submitted by H. B.
Tuttle, Lima contractor, was $30,S0O.
Tuttle's bid allocated SIS 400 for
labor and SIS, 400 for y F." ials.
Green and Sawyer, also of Lima,
ranked next with bid of 1920,
comprised of $18,2SO labor, and $15,-
900 materials.
q Third bidder was Friebel and
@ Continued on page 10)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Greene County
Holds Court

Fumbling among the few books on
a peg-supported rough shelf i'm the
one-room log cabin, Arthur st. Claire,
Cincinnati, took down a volume and
lisped: Gentlemen, thith book lookth
juth like a tethtament."
It was the June, 1904, term Of the
yeatold Greene County Court of
Causes ana Sc. Clyair, prosecuting
attorney, was hunting for Bible
with which to swear in the grand
jury. '@
After taking their oaths the jur-
ors retired to a small pole corncrib
back on the cabin to hear witnesses
in secret session. Then somebody
looked at the book. 1t was an old
copy of Arabian Nights Entertain
ment." That did not matter-the
court went on with its business.
Court Proceeds
The court was in the one-room
cabin of Benjamin Whiteman, near
Owen Davis log cabin mill on Beaver
creek, five and one-half miles west
of Xenia. Xenia, laid out the year
before, had but one log cabin, built
in April, 1904, by John Marshall in
the southwest corner of town.
The county itself wasn't much.
There was the first cabin built in the
settlement--that of Daniel Wilson,
put up April 7, 1896, in Sugar Creek
township; the cabin of Thomas
Townsley, built in 1898 near the falls
of Massie's creek, eight miles from
Xenia; that of James Galloway built
the same year on the Little Miami
River two miles north of Oldtown;
the hut of Isaiah and William Garner
Sutton, built 1899 in Caesars Creek
township, five miles south of Xenia;
and the cabin of T. Carneal, built the
year after he had laid out Caesars
vile in 1900. Caesarville was intend
ed to be the county seat but some
thing slipped and it went to Xenia.
At the time the first court was held
there were a few other cabins of un-
identified persons in Caesarville.
Every cabin had a stick chimney,
CONTINUED on page 10)
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Bluffton Eyes Groundhog
Weather Forecast Coming
Next Monday
C0ldest Weather in Three Years
Adds Significance to Ground
hog Day

To see or not to see his shadow
aye, there's the rub as Shakespeare
the immortal bard of Avon might
have said had he stood watch over
a Groundhog's burrow on the second
day of February during a hard win
ter.
And whether you believe in the
Grounding as a weather prognosti-
Gator or whether you put it down
as just an old wives tale told by the
fire on a long winters night, there's
no denying that the event every
year holds a measure of interest far
out of proportion, perhaps to any
scientific basis of fact.
Anyway next Monday is Ground
hog Day and tradition has it that
this is the time when the little
animal awakens from his winter
sleep to poke his nose from his bur-
row and survey the skies.
And custom insists that if the
Grounding sees his shadow there
will be six more weeks of winter
weather. If he fails to see his
shadow an early spring is on the
way.
Americas Grounding day tradi-
tion is said to have originated among
the Pennsylvania Dutch but today
is nationally accepted.
The Pennsylvania Dutch, however,
still have something exclusive in con-
nection with the day for on every
February 2 the Grounding lodge of
Quarryville holds its annual meeting.
This lodge, the oldest of it's kind
in the country is made up of sub
stantial and influential businessmen
of the area. Membership is obtained
by invitation only.
Many wellknown Americans are
members including the President,
Lowell Thomas, radio newscaster,
and others. A Hindu potentate, also
member has donated a small, cost
ly oriental rug, on which the Grand
Patriarch of the lodge stands dur
ing each annual meeting. %
On the second day of February
each year it is the duty of the pro-
phets of the lodge to go to the fields
and keep watch beside Grounding
holes until noon,
The day is rounded out with a
banquet in the evening when the
prophets make their reports, follow
ing which the group adjourns for
another year. s.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
BLUFFTON'S $500
TAX RATE FOURTH
HIGHEST IN COUNTY
Schools Share of $3.50 Here
Is Highest School Levy
in County Towns
Button Corporation, for Town
Government, Has Next to
Lowest Rate

BIuffton's tax rate of 1920 is
the fourth highest among nine Allen
county cities and villages, with that
position largely due to a levy of
$3.50 for school purposes, an analy-
sis of county taxation tables showed
this week.
The Bluffton school tax is the high
est in any of the nine towns, with
Lima's levy of $11.9O ranking second,
and EIida's $1150 third.
Bluffton corporation, on the other
hand, for operation of the town gov
ernment has a rate of $3.50, the low
est city rate in the county with the
exception of Cairo where only 80
cents is levied. Delphos has the high
est city rate, $1,000, followed by
Lima's $40.
Breakdown of Rate
Bluffton's total tax rate of 1920
is broken down as follows: Schools,
$3.50; Corporation, $3.50; County
$3.50; and Township, 20 cents.
Beaverdam village has an aggre-
gate tax rate of S1760, composed of
Schools, 5000; Corporation, $4.20;
County, $3.50, and Township, 20 cents.
Bluffton corporations cut of $500
from the total tax levy, compares
with other county cities as follows:
Delphos, $1,000; Lima, Ss.40; Elida,
$5.75; Spencerville, $5.4O; Harrod,
$5; Beaverdam, S420; Lafayette,
$500; Bluffton, $500, and Cairo, 50
cents.
School tax rates In cities has Bluff
ton topping the list with $780,
Lima, $11.90; Elida, s11.5O; Beaver
dam, slO.6os Harrod, 5000; Lafay,
cite, SO; Cairo, $40; spencerville
$3.50; and Delphos, $3.50.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
HOG FEEDING LOTS
EMPTY on FARMS
HERE THIS WINTER
Corn at Record High Mark Of
fers Better 1nducement for
Cash Sales
Some Cattle Being Fed, Prin-
cipalIy to Use Up Unmark-
etable Soft Corn

Almost completely reversing the
normal Blufrton area farming practice
of raising corn in the summer and
feeding it to hogs in the winter,
many farms IN the district haven't
single hog ii their pens this year,
survey showed this week.
Unparalleled i'm the memory of
farmers here The situation represents
unwillingness to gamble on feeding
high-priced corn to hogs at a time
when the farmer can obtain an ex-
cellent cash return simply by market
ing the grain itself.
Other livestock has been largely
curtailed on farms for the same
reason, and the winter feed program
of the district where normally
thousands Of bushels of corn are used
in feeding programs is at its lowest
ebb since prior to World War |.
Feed at Record High
With corn prices holding at $3.50 a
bushel; cats at SIPS, wheat at So,
and mixed hay at $50, farmers be-
lieve there are too many hazards
involved in high-priced feeding pro-
grams.
Older operators recall what hap
pened In 1872 when livestock prices
broke, afRl feeders lost heavily be-
cause of t.ae high-priced initial in
vestment IL buying stock, plus an
additional ioss on costly feed.
Curtailnaant of cattle feeding local
ly has NOT been as pronounced as
the decline in hog production, since
it is raore practicable to feed the
soft corn s. last falls crop to cattle.
FsdmSoft Corn to Cattle
Immasgsr-e corn can be handled in
cattle King much better than with
hogs, I'D those With sizable quanti-
ties OF soft corn have maintained
cattle herds as means of utilizing
the grain to their advantage.
Those farmers who have good
corn, however, have earmarked it for
cash sale when they think the market
is right, and very little is going into
feeding programs this winter. Many
farmers are said to have some corn
on hand from two years yields, dat
ing back to the 1916 crop, which they
plan to sell when they think the
market has hit the high mark.
With corn at $3.50 a bushel now,
many observers, are predicting So
corn by spring, and they point to the
fact that it's not only more profit
able but a lot less work to sell the
grain than to attempt feeding pro-
grams.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
BJIftOn Dealer
Entarges SdIesr00ns

C. F. Niswander, dealer in farm
equipment and household appliances
is completing an extensive moderniz-
ing and enlarging of the salesroom
and service shop of his establishment
on South Main street.
The work which was begun last
summer will be finished by the end
of this month.
The salesroom interior, finished in
a gray tint and Illuminated with
fluorescent lighting has been enlarged
with ample space for the display of
farm machinery and home acces-
sories.
A newly designed system of hand
ling repair parts has been installed
and a large workshop at the rear
completes a modernized unit for
sales and service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Recreation Committee
Names NeU Officers

Reorganization of the Bluffton Re-
creation committee was effected at a
meeting Tuesday night in the Bluff
ton High school cafeteria, with six
new members added to the group
and a new roster of officers taking
over direction of the organization.
Woodrow Little, new chairman,
will be assisted by Paul Diller, vice
chairman; Leland Diller, treasurer;
and Norman Edinger, secretary.
New members of the group are
Ed Badertscher, Ed Chamberlain,
Charles Steiner, Arthur Lewis, Nor
man Edinger and Ralph Reichen-
bach. Continuing members are Levi
Althaus, Harry Bogart, A. C..
Burcky, Kent Cotterman, Leland Dill
Ter, Paul Diller, Silas Diller, Will
liam Edwards, w. A. Howe, Ralph
Lanham, Woodrow Little, Gail Num-
ma, Rev. v. C. Oppermann, Don
Patterson, Dave Risser, Eugene Ben
roth and Norman Triplett.
At Tuesdays meeting, two recrea-
ton films were shown. They stressed
the fact a recreation program must
be community venture, and cannot
be carried by one organization alone.
Support of municipal government,
clubs, churches, ETC., are essential to
success.
Features planned for the coming
yeaT to raise funds for recreation
purposes include the second football
preview OH September 10, a pro-
'osed boxing match and basketball
carnival.
Newest addition to the features
on this winters recreation program
has been the start Of ice skating on
the college tennis courts, it was an
nounced at the meeting. The skat-
ing rink is lighted this year for
after-night use.
Recreation committee meetings will
be held the third Tuesday of each
month in the offices of The Triplett
Electrical Instrument Co.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Dorothy Anderson To
Graduate dt University

Miss Dorothy Anderson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Anderson Of
Orange township is one of 50 stu
dents to be graduated from Bowling
Green State university this month.
She viii receive a degree Of Bache-
lor Of Science in Education with 8
major in physical sciences.
She is member of Kappa Delta
sorority; Kappa Mu Epsilon, mathe-
mates honorary; ri Kappa Delta,
speech honorary, and Kappa Delta
Pi, national education honorary.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Infantry Chorus
Here Next Week

Lonard de Paur's Infantry chorus,
originated in 1912 by men of the
372nd infantry, win be presented in
a concert in the high school gymnas-
ium at p. m. Wednesday night of
ext week under auspices of the
Bluffton college department of music.
Billed as the finest musical attrac-
tion to come out of World War III,
this unique choral group, conducted
by de Paur, now is on its first civil
ian concert tour.
The 35-voice chorus is the same
which since 1912 presented $500
concerts, most of which were over
seas. In the novel program of the
chorus is included the music of
many lands, songs of World War II,
modern arrangements of art songs,
and liturgical chants of the orthodox
church and spirituals.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Business Men VIII
Hear Findtdy Man

Millard Saul, director of public
relations of the Ohio Oil company,
Findlay, will be the speaker at a
dinner-meeting of the Bluffton Busi-
ness Mems association at the Wal
nut Grill this Wednesday at 6:30
o'clock.
Music for the meeting will be pro-
vided by the Richland Grange quar-
tet consisting of Wilford and Leon
ard Gratz, Earl Matter and Morris
Bell with Mrs. Earl Matter as ac-
companist.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Collect Clothing
In Relief Drive

Clothing for relief purposes viii
be collected Saturday in a project
sponsored by the First Mennonite
church and students of Bluffton col
lere.
The entire town will be canvassed
and those making contributions are
asked to place the bundles on their
doorsteps by o'clock in the morn
ing.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Gaylord Miller, Sr.,
Rawson, a boy, Gaylord Frederick,
Jr., Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Burkhold-
er, Bluffton, girl Judith Ann, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Doyle Rainey, Jr.,
Ada, boy, Dennis Kent, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Konst, Sr., La
fayette, a boy, Paul Edward, Jr.,
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sheridan,
Bluffton, a boy born at Lima Me-
mortal hospital, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Yoder, Jra
Goshen, Ind, a girl, Diane Lynn
born last Wednesday in Elkhart
Indiana, hospital, Mrs. Yoder is the
Former Betty Amstutz, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilhelm Amstutz OF
Blnffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-29
HunOrist At Lions
Charter Night Meet

Mack Sauer, humorist nationally
known as an author and entertainer,
will be the speaker at the Sixteenth
annual charter night observance of
the Bluffton Lions club at 6:30 p. m.
next Tuesday in the Walnut Grill.
Sauer is editor of the Leesburg
Citizen at Leesburg, Ohio. In addi-
ton to being known as progressive
country editor, he travels widely
as a speaker, and has made appear
ances as an entertainer in 80 states.