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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Free Movies For Riddles Feature OF
Dollar Days Here Friday, Saturday

More than 30 Bluffton merchants including almost all
establishments in the downtown district cooperating
provide for district shoppers most unusual op
portunly in Blufton Dollar Days Friday and Saturday.
Two days of outstanding bargains will climax weeks of
preparation for this sales event which finds stores in widely
diversified lines featuring the best sales values possible
To make possible asonishngy low prices, profit margins
have been cut sharply order to focus the attention shoppers
on Bufftons superior facilities trading center
Dollar Days will be particularly appealing for children of
school who invited to free showing of my Dog Rusty
in the Cara theatre Saturday afternoon The show also will
include comedy and cartoon and will provide interesting and
wholesome entertainment for the ddes while their parents
shopping for bargains All school children of Buton and
rounding towns invited
No parking meters line Bufon streets another advantage
that will bring many here for the bargain sale.
Many of the outstanding bargains offered in Dollar Days
in advertisements in this weeks issue of The Buon
News All well worth reading for mone-savng opportunities
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
No Slump In Maple Syrup Price; 1t
Goes Up S1.5O To $3.50 Gallon Mark
Farmers Prepare For Spring
Operations As Demand Con-
tinues At High Level
Small Tracts In Bluffton Area
Produce Limited Quantity
Each Spring

A sharp upward trend in the price
of maple syrup, one farm product
unscathed in the current slump, finds
Bluffton area farmers with maple
groves getting their camps in readi-
ness for the annual spring run.
With the demand for good quality
maple syrup continuing to expand,
early reports are setting this years
price at $3.50 a gallon, boost of
$1.5o over the So mark prevailing
a year ago.
Local production of maple syrup
revived by the wartime shortage Oh
sugar, has shown no indication o1
reverting to its pre-war status when
it was largely an abandoned prac-
tice.
Up FROM $3.50 PRE-WAR PRICE
Before the war, many maple
groves were disregarded by owners
because their operation had been un-
profitable when sugar was plentiful
and when maple syrup could be
purchased in stores for prices as low
as $1.50 gallon.
Sugar shortages, however, brought
revival of maple sugar camps here,
for operation permitted the farmer
to serve his own individual needs,
as well as giving him assurance of
high prices for the surplus he had
for sale.
Inasmuch as area farmers do not
have capacity to make syrup COM
mercially there has been no estab-
lished price for the product, with
each years price level determined
generally according to the demand
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
FIOUer-Seed Store
Opening Saturday

Herr's Flowers & Seeds, new gard
en- supply house, will hold open
house Saturday at the residence of
Kermit Herr, who operates the busi-
ness at 123 South Lawn avenue.
Herr is successful gladioli grow
er in this area and has won numer-
GUS awards at flower shows. His
new store, recently completed will
carry bulbs, seeds and garden equip
ment together with insecticides and
fertilizers. He will also represent a
landscape consultant and fruit ad-
wiser and is prepared to test sam
pies of soil.
At Saturdays opening, flowers
will be given to the first 65 visitors
together with favors for all callers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24

his family, but continued farming
operations until 1910.
A member of st. Johns Reformed
church, Santschi at one time served
as Sunday school superintendent and
was former director of the choir
of the church.
Survivors include one daughter,
Mrs. Alice Parker, of Washington,
D. c.; and a son, Arthur Santschi,
Of Chicago. A son, Lewis was killed
in an automobile accident in 1912.
There also are five grandchildren
and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in st.
Johns church Tuesday afternoon,
with Rev. v. c. Oppermann officiat-
ing. Burial was in Maple Grove
cemetery.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Plans For Countrywide Test
Directed By DR.. E. S. Augs-
burger, Former Blufftonite
One Hundred Per Cent Tests
Will Be Made of Every Dairy
Herd In County

All Allen county dairy cattle will
be tested for tuberculosis starting
next summer in countrywide test
ing program announced last week by
Z. S. Augsburger, of Lima, depart
ment of agriculture veterinarian.
DR.. Augsburger, now located in
Lima, is a former Bluffton resident.
Plans already have been completed
for testing in seven of the county's
townships, and details are being
ironed out at present for completion
of the project in the remainder of
the county, DR.. Augsburger said.
Funds for the tuberculosis test
have been appropriated by Allen
county commissioners, and 100 per
cent test will be made of all dairy
cattle, rather than running a spot
check. The testing program will be
continued every three years.
If Allen county is to remain on
the accredited dairy list, cattle must
be tested every three years, DR..
pointed out.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
new AUTO TAGS
TO GO ON SALE
HERE TUESDAY
License Plates for All Passenger
Cars $40 Plus Registration
Fee
Tags to Carry Yellow Numerals
on Black Ground; Deadline
March 81

Auto tags for 1949, going on sale
mex Tuesday morning at the Troy
Motor Sales, in the South Main street
business section, will cost all pas
senger vehicle owners the same
amount again this year-a fiat fee
of SO plus a 25-cent registration
fee.
II. NJ. (Dick) Troy, owner of the
Troy Motor Sales, is the new deputy
license registrar here, succeeding
Clayton Bixel, who during the two
preceding years of Republican admin
istration in the state sold auto tags
at the Bixel Motor Sales.
A fiat fee of $40 for all auto tags
continues a new policy established
last year. Prior to 1948, the cost of
auto tags had been on a graduated
scale based on horsepower, altho a
considerable majority of the licenses
fell in the $40 class.
Yellow and Black
New tags going on sale here next
Tuesday will have yellow numerals
on a black background, reversal of
the 1948 color scheme.
The new tags may be used any
time after purchase, and must be on
all cars operated after March 81.
This is the third year since 1941
that two tags have been provided,
for during the war and in a few
years following the close of hostili-
ties, only one plate was provided
for each motorist, because of the
shortage of steel.
In applying for tags, the procedure
will be the sale as last year, with
owners required to present their bill
of sale or certificate of title before
the licenses can be issued.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
With The Sick

Mrs. Daisy Woodruff who collapsed
on a bus was removed from the de-
pot here to Bluffton hospital Monday
morning. She was enroute from
North Baltimore to her home in
Lima. She was taken to her home
Tuesday.
Otto Bigler, former meat market
operator is a patient in Bluffton
hospital with a heart ailment. His
condition is reported improved.
Improvement is reported in the
condition of Sidney Hauenstein, pa
tient in Bluffton hospital with asth-
ma complications
Mrs. Wilhelm Amstutz II, sur
gical patient in Bluffton hospital
has been removed to the home OF
w. A. Amstutz north of town.
C. D. Steiner of Pandora who was
a patient in Bluffton hospital has
been removed to his home.
Mrs. David Fisher who underwent
treatment at Bluffton hospital 70,
a fractured left kneecap as the re.
suit of fall has been removed tt
her home near Pandora.
Mrs. Henry Balmer has an eye in
lection at her home on South Lawr
avenue.
Miss Kate Hilty, 81, of Chicago
is reported critically i'll in a hos
pital in that city. She has been II
coma for several weeks. Mis-.
Hilty, a former Bluffton resident, il
a sister of Mrs. A. L. Baumgartne1
of South Main street.
Carl Smucker of Bluffton colleg,
faculty is ill at his home on Cam
pus View.
Miss M'Della Moon of Bluffto1
college faculty Is i'll with flu.
r. A. Lantz of Bluffton colleg
department Of music is recoverin,
from sinus infection.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Ebenezer Church Has
Combined Conference

Annual Bible and youth confer
ences of the Ebenezer Mennonite
church will be combined this year
into ore weeks sessions, opening
Sunday, March 13, it is announced
by the pastor, Rev. Howard Landes.
Speaker will be nr. Paul r. Bau-
man, professor of Bible and execu-
tive vice president of Grace Theo-
logical seminary, Winano Lake, Ind.
DR.. Bauman a prominent archaeolo-
gist, was formerly dean of the Los
Angeles, California, Bible Institute
and served as interim pastor of the
First Mennoite church of Los An
geles.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Washington Address
At Masonic Dinner

Prof. c. H. Freeman of Ohio
Northern university, Ada, was the
principal speaker at the Masonic
lodge Patterson dinner, Monday
night. An authority on Washington,
Prof. Freeman gave a graphic mar
rative of Washington's military cam
paigns and his part in the formation
of the republic.
There were lao members of the
lodge and guests in attendance at
the affair. Walter White, assistant
Allen county prosecutor, scheduled
to address the meeting was unable
to fill his engagement because of
illness. Dinner was served by wo-
men of the Eastern Star order.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Mosquito Control Program Cited As
Check On Summers Polio Epidemic

tients is the most common carrier
of polio virus. This in turn gets
into streams through sewage, and
under these conditions the virus
will live from eight to 10 hours.
DR.. Porterfeld also said it is
known that some virus is airborne,
but contended that fecates are the
greatest carrier.
A community hit by a polio cpl
demic one year is not likely to have
another the next year, the health
commissioner said. He pointed tc
U. s. public health service records
which show no cases of a community
suffering polio outbreaks two year.
in row.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Green, Bluff
ton, boy, David Ronald, last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Paul, Bluffton,
a girl, Deborah Eileen, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs Raymond Holden,
Findlay, a girl, Joetta Kay, Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Betz, Airing
ton, a girl, Jennifer Jean, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Green,
Findlay, a girl, Lucinda Jane, Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Driver
Lima, "a girl, Kathleen 10, Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Etter, Pan.
dora, a boy, Ronald Lee, Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnny Miller, Dun.
kirk, a girl, Linda Lou, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Stahl, Leip
sic, a boy, James Robert, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Van Alta
Arlington, a girl, Deborah Lynn
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Joliff, La
Wayette, girl, Dorcas Elaine
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Montgomery
a boy Gary Lee at Findlay hospital
Tuesday. Mrs. Montgomery is tn
former Kathleen Waltz of near MI
Cory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Nichols, o
Waynesfeld, boy, William Dennis
born Monday at Lima Memoria
hospital. Mrs. Nichols is the form
er verena Steiner Of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Indiana Male Chorus
Is Coming On Sunday

The Menno singers, male chorus
of Goshen, Indiana, will be heard in
sacred concerts at the First Men
MONTE church here Sunday after
noon at 2:30 and Grace Mennonite
church, Pandora, in the evening at
7:30 o'clock.
The chorus consisting of 80 voices
directed by Walter Stutsman is
sponsored by the Eighth Street Men
MONTE church of Goshen, and is in
its third concert season.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Scholastic Honor
To BiuftOn Girl

Jean Steinman of Bluffton has
been named to the deans list at
Baldwin Wallace college, Berea,
where she is a senior, it was an
nounced the first of the week.
She is among the upper ten per
cent of the student body in scholas-
tic achievement and received recog-
milton after attaining grade aver
age of B-plus or better during the
fall term. She is the younger
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest
Steinman of South Lawn avenue.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Allen County Dairy Cattle Will Be
Tested For tuberculosis This Year
Personal Tax Aid
Here On March 4

Representatives from the Allen
county auditors office will be at the
Citizens National bank in Bluffton,
Friday, March 4 to assist residents
in preparation of their personal
property and classified tax returns,
it was announced by Auditor Rus
sell L. Hire.
Representative from the auditors
office here Monday were unable to
accommodate the large number seek
ing aid and for that reason arrange
ments were made for another day
here, Hire announced.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24

Confirmation that Buttons mos
quito control program helped keep
last summers polio epidemic in this
area from gaining foothold here
was seen in testimony of DR.. John
Porterfeld, Ohio health commissioner,
at the recent Maumee valley con-
servancy hearing in Defiance.
DR.. Porterfeld said that polio
virus is carried by flies and mosqui-
toes. Rluffton's control program,
started early last spring and con-
tinued until late fall, practically rid
the town of flies and mosquitoes
during the summer.
The state health commissioner
also testified that excreta from pa
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
HATCHERY RECORD
MAY BE MADE IN
RUSH FOR POULTRY
Cheaper Grain Spurs Orders For
Baby Chicks; More Turkeys
Coming Too
Hatcheries Report Unprecedent-
ed Early Orders: Production
Largely Sold Now

Hatchery business in the Bluffton
area is the best in recent years,
and hatchery operators are pointing
out an almost unprecedented Febru-
airy condition which finds a sizable
portion of their spring schedules of
baby chicks already sold.
The rush of orders for chicks is
seen by operators as farm measure
to get higher prices for grain by
marketing it in the form of poultry
or eggs during the coming year.
Although grain prices have drop
ped decidedly during the last IL
months, poultry prices have changed
little from year ago. AS result
the situation this year is exactly re-
versed from what it was in 1948
when grain prices were inflated and
the price of poultry held stationary.
With feed costs high, little poultry
was raised in 1948, but with cost of
feeding projects at lower levels this
year larger poultry fiocks viii be in
evidence throughout the entire dis
trict.
NATIONWIDE TREND
A nationwide trend toward in
creased poultry production also is
in evidence, with heavy chick buy.
ing serving as barometer of what's
ahead in chicken abundance.
In many areas the rush to turn
cheaper grain into chicken is adding
up to something like stampede,
Continued on page 50
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Youth For Christ
Rally On Saturday

Rev. Russell r. Kaufman, Indian
apolis evangelist and pastor will ad-
dress the monthly Youth for Christ
rally of the Bluffton-Pandora area
at the high school auditorium here
Saturday night at 1880 o'clock. Rev.
Kaufman is pastor of the Christian
and Missionary Alliance church in
Indianapolis.
Opening the rally will be sing
spiration and special numbers of
vocal and instrumental talent are on
the evenings program. A pre-serv-
ice prayer meeting will be held at
TITO o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Lions Club Charter
Night Next Tuesday

Bluffton Lions will observe their
sixteenth anniversary and ladies
night with a dinner at the Walnut
grill, next Tuesday evening at $50
o'clock.
r. H. MacCullough of Defiance,
district governor will be the speaker
of the evening Other numbers on
the program will be readings by
VIM. Burbick, instructor of speech
at Bluffton college and the College
Mems quartet.
Past District Governor Dwight
Murray will induct new members
and DR.. L. L. Ramseyer, president
of the club, will be POSTMASTER.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
NATIONWIDE TREND
TUO Retail Stores
Exchange Locations

Geiger & Diller clothing store and
Fett &Sons hardware, retail stores
in the North Main street business
section are exchanging locations this
week. Both stores are located in
the Fett business block and occupy
adjoining rooms.
! Stocks of merchandise were moved
the first of the week and remodeling
of interiors is in prograss. Both
stores are being fitted up with fix
lures and lighting for modern mer-
chandising.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
BODY OF MARINE.
KILLED IN PACIFIC.
TO ARRIVE FRIDAY
Body of Pvt. Leo Basinger to be
Taken to Diiier Funeral
Home
Services Will be Held at Funeral
Home Here on Sunday
Afternoon

Remains of Pvt. Adrian Leo
Basinger % year old Marine who
was killed on Okinawa in the Pacific
theatre of war, will arrive here from
Columbus, Friday night at 9:42
o'clock on the Cleveland-St Louis
Nickel Plate train, according to word
received from Army sources the first
of the week.
The body will be taken to the Paul
Diller funeral home where services
will be held Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. Officiating will be Rev.
V. c. Oppermann of st. Johns
Reformed church of which he was a
member.
Interment. will be In the Thompson
cemetery with graveside rites con-
Quoted by the Foss-Agin-M Meyer
American Legion post of Ada.
Killed on AirfieId
Basinger a machine gunner in the
Marine corps met instant death on
Machinate airfield in Okinawa when
he was killed by artillery shell fire
May 4, 1945. The body was brought
to this country last month on the
army transport Sergeant Jack j.
Pendleton. He served in he second
battalion, Co. F of the first Marine
division.
He was the son of Adrian and
Glenna Basingeer of near Ada, born
June /, 1923 and was graduated
from Mt Cory high school in 1943.
He was married to Margaret Burk-
holder.
Besides the parents he is survived
by two sisters Mrs. Alice Fauwer of
Ada and Mary 10 Basinger at home.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Real Estate Deal

Samuel Badertscher has sold his
80 acre farm to his son Walter, in
a deal closed this week. The farm,
south of town on the Bentley road
is the old Badertscher homestead
which has been in the family since
the early 1850's.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
ROpp TripIett Named
To Safety Council

Ropp Triplett last week was elect
ed a trustee of the Allen County
Safety Council, a group which gath
ers statistical information on traffic
accidents in Allen county and car
ries on a continuous accident pre-
vention campaign.
Walter S. Jackson, appellate court
Judge, is president of the Council.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Clothing Collection
For Relief March 5

Clothing for overseas relief pur-
poses will be collected in Bluffton on
Saturday, March 5 in project
sponsored jointly by the Missionary
Society of the First Mennonite
church and the Bluffton college Re-
lief committee, it was announced
the first of the week.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
AnlstHtz Estate Is
Valued At S3O,489

Estate of the late Edwin Amstutz,
Richland township, is estimated at
$30, ,489.14 in an inventory filed last
week in Allen county probate court.
The inventory consisted of real
estate and personal property.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
Henry Y Film, At
C1rnan Next Week

Film version of Shakespeare's
Henry V will be presented at the
Carma theater here on Thursday
afternoon and evening, March 8, it
is announced by George Carmack.
The picture stars Laurence Oliver
as King Henry V of England.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
DR.. Lloyd Rnn,seyer
Is Speaker At Ada

DR.. Lloyd Ramseyer, president of
Bluffton college, was the speaker at
meeting of the Ada Parent Teach
ers association Tuesday night in the
Ada High school auditorium.
DR.. Ramseyer's subject was Build
ing Personality"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-02-24
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) = Wheat
S2.05; corn Slip; oats Csc; soys
s2.12.
Poultry-Heavy hens 33c; leghorr
hens 27c.
Eggs-Large white 39c; large
brown 38c; medium white 35c;
medium brown 34c.
Butterfat-64c.
Evening star., 1949-10-27
After Dark
Raleigh Chanse.of.Pace to Bring
Arthur Guitar Boogie" Smith to Town
BY Harry Macarthur

Father Gilbert v. Hartke at
Catholic University. opens a To-
day engagement as the Sazerac
Rooms featured singer tomorrow
night. She was heartily approved
by every one, you remember. when
appearing at the Wardman Park
Metronome Room during the
summer.
Tonight. of course. is the final
one at the Sazerac Room for
Johnny Bradford and Tony Ro-
mano, who brought new life to
the place during the past three
weeks.
Just the other day Drama Critic
Brooks Atkinson of the New York
Times looked upon the Jean and
Walter Kerr revue. Touch and
Go" and was nightly pleased by
Kyle Mcdonnell. the television
girl. She, he said, "is radiantly
beautiful, has a sense of humor
and can sing remarkably we'll
qualities said to be common to all
the women in Texas"
This is brought up here only tt
note that there is an item Of evil
dence now on view locally which
supports this theory about Texas
women. Her name Is Daisy Dean
and she called Fort Worth home
before she went out into the
world OF show business and wound
Evening star., 1949-10-27

AS changes OF pace go. the one
scheduled for the Raleigh Hotels
Pail Mall Room Is noteworthy at
the very least. The Pail Mall
Room has always leaned toward
the sophisticated, maybe even the
elegant-the snowy tablecloth, the
cleaning silver, the rich food, the
impeccable service. These. the
Raleigh management says, will
remain, but the dance music in
the polite society volume and
tempo is on the way out.
Come next Wednesday night,
the Pail Mall Room will be in
vaded by a popular form of en-
tertainment not usually associated
with the formal surroundings of
hotel dinner and supper rooms.
Come next Wednesday night, the
Pail Mall Room goes hillbilly.
1t is, frankly, an experiment.
but the same sort Of entertain
ment has proved eminently sue
cessful in like hotels in other
cities. Curt Schiller, the Raleigh's S
manager, and a man who knows
his operatic and other music, has
hunch that hillbilly and Western
songs will find a receptive audi
ence at the Pail Mall Room. In
such setting, he says, 1t is made
Immediately clear that this is
truly folk music.
The leading innovators Of the
experiment at the Raleigh will be
Arthur Smith and Texas Jim
Robertson. Mr.. Smith is best
known for that recording of
Guitar Boogie" and his orches-
ira is deemed ideal for the
change in entertainment,
since it plays straight dance mu-
sic as we'll as the hillbilly tunes.
Mr.. Robertson has been intro
duced to his largest audience most
recently by appearing on several
of Arthur Godfrey's numerous
radio shows.
The Pail Mall Rooms new
schedule will call for two shows
nightly. seven nights a week.
Talent will be provided by Connie
B. Gay, who has done well for
himself booking concert, appear
ances here of hillbilly shows.
4 X X X
Reminder: Rudy Vallee. who
came East from Hollywood and
those prissy comedy roles in films
to prove that he still is a talented
singing entertainer, opens Monday
night at the Shoreham Blue
Room.
4 + -
That guest appearance Of Vir-
ginia Bradley at the Sazerac
Room Of the Old New Orleans the
other night was something in
the nature Of a preview. Miss
Bradley. who has been absorbing
knowledge Of the theater from