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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Brilliant Pianist
Here November q

Claudette Sorel, pianist, will ap-
pear Monday, Nov. 27 in Bluffton
College chapel at 500 P. M. in
stead of the Bluffton High School
auditorium as previously announced
The famed pianist, 10 years old
is considered to be one of the best
women pianists on the concert stage
today. Immediately following the
concert here she will make an ap
pearance in New York City with
the NBC symphony orchestra.
Miss Sorel is pupil of Rudolph
Serkin, outstanding American plan
ist and teacher. Her appearance
ON the concert stage has beer
termed sensational and critics &C
claim her.
She will appear in Bluffton on th'
Bluffton College Concert series ane
her appearance will be the SECOND
number on the series which schedule!
outstanding talent for this concert
season.
The young pianist appeared on the
Lima Friends of Music Concert Sc
ries two seasons ago and was widely
acclaimed by Lima musicians.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Determination Of Sewer System Policy
to Have Priority at Council Meeting
Bluffton Couple Leaving for India
to Attend so Year Mission Jubilee

eral Conference of Mennonite e
churches.
Rev. Smucker is a former presi-
dent of the General conference and
now is editor of leading church
paper, The Mennonite. Prior to be-
coming pastor of the publication he
was pastor of the First Mennonite
church in Bluffton.
Two MONTHS TRIP
Leaving here ON Nov. "a, Rev.
and Mrs. Smucker will board a
transatlantic plane in New York
City two days later.
Enroute to India their stop-overs
will include time in London, Beirut,
tie Holy Land, Delhi and Calcutta.
On their return they will visit Cairo,
Rome, Zurich, Geneva, Holland and
Germany, and the entire tour will
require about two months time.
They will make the overseas trip
in company with DR.. and Mrs. Her
bert Schmidt, Of the Bethel Clinic,
Newton, Kansas. Mrs. Schmidt is
the daughter of the first Mennonite
missionaries to India, Rev. and Mrs.
P. A. Penner.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16

from last years levels, price tags on
some of the trimmings have nudged
upward with one notable exception,
namely cranberries.
Demand for turkeys thus far, has
not been too brisk, but prices never
theless are holding firm, albeit at
last years level. Farmers are get
ting around 30 cents a pound live
weight for the larger toms and 40c
for hens.
Eight Cents for Handling
Retail prices average about eight
cents higher, representing handling
charges, the heavier toms bringing
around 38c and hens 48c the pound.
You can get tur key dressed,
ready for the oven for Acc a pound,
if you can use one of the larger
toms, weighing Is pounds or more;
however, if your requirements are
for a smaller bird, as the majority
desire, you'll have to pay SO cents
for turkeys under the IS pound class.
For those who will make chicken
the principal item for Thanksgiving
dinner, a choice heavy roasting hen
may be had for % cents a pound if
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Meets Jap Woman,
Former SchOOLnl0te

Mr.. and Mrs. Millen C. Geiger of
South Lawn avenue were in Toledo,
Sunday attending services at Ep-
worth Methodist church where Mrs.
Masa Nakayama of Nagasaki, Ja-
pan, spoke at the morning service.
Mrs. Geiger and Mrs. Nagayama,
former roommates at Ohio Wesleyan
university, Delaware, enjoyed a de-
lightful informal reunion later at a
tea at the home of the pastor, Rev
Sidney Mayer and Mrs. Mayer.
Mrs. Nakayama was graduated
from Ohio Wesleyan in the class OF
1916 and since that time has be-
come a member of the faculty of
Kwassui Women's College at Naga-
saki, Japan, as well as leading
pioneer for women's rights in that
country.
She is now serving second term
in the japanese Diet and is in this
country as a representative from
Japan to the United Nations to seek
repatriation of Japanese war pris-
oners still being held by the So
viets.
The honorary degree of Doctor OF
Laws was conferred upon her by her
alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan univers.
ity last Friday. She will leave soon
for Lake Success, N. Y, to appear
before the United Nations council ir
behalf of her countrymen now being
held prisoners in Russia.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Turkeys Plentiful for THANKSGIVING

you'll drive out to the farm and get
your supply at the source. At the
dealers you'll pay about 35 cents a
pound, live weight.
Capons which are making their
appearance on the market this sea-
son will cost you about 3S to 40
cents at the farm.
Trimmings
Caulifowerat 27 cents a head is
one of this years most thrifty buys
in greenstuffs, and most other fresh
vegetables have shown little change
in price from the ,siay season Of
one year ago.
Cranberries, traditionally associat-
ed with Thanksgiving menus, are al
their lowest price in years, quoted
by most local markets at two pounds
for 25 cents. Last year cranberries
brought 81 cents pound.
Oysters, however, are up to rs
cents a pint, in contrast to the 194S
price of 50 cents, and butter at St
to 73 cents is about the same as last
year. Coffee prices, too, are about
the same as in 1949, ranging from
rs cents pound upward.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
BLuftOn Man On
Bible Speaker List

DR.. V. H. Altman, of Bluffton,
superintendent of the Sandusky con-
ference of the Evangelical United
Brethren church, has been named to
the speakers bureau for the Re-
vised Standard Version Bible observ-
ance in the fall of 1852.
The special observance will mark
the publication dates of the entire
revised standard version of the
Bible, and during the observance
period DR.. Altman will be available
for speaking engagements within a
500-mile radius of Bluffton.
Announcement of DR.. Allman's
speaking bureau assignment was
made by DR.. Harold E. Stassen,
president of the University of
Pennsylvania, who has been presi-
dent of the international Council
of Religious Education since 1912.
The announcement reports that the
council, with its committees aug
mented by many local groups, is
making extensive plans for the OBJ
servance. This will include mass
meetings in at least 5000 communi-
ties in the United States and Can
ada.
The completion of the Revised
Standard Version of the Bible (the
New Testament section was published
in 1946) will mark an epoch in the
religious life of the English-speak-
ing peoples comparable to that
marked by the issuance of the King
James Version in 1911.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
B1saffton Target Of Mock Air Raid Sunday
Army OF Hunters Range Countryside
AS Season Opens Wednesday Morning

Tuesday night to be ready for We'd
nesday mornings hunting crowded
private rooms and Buttons hotel,
and when the season opened one of
the biggest turnouts in years throng-
ed Bluffton area fields and woodlots.
Open season on pheasants will con-
tinue through Nov. %, an 11-day
span which will include two Satur-
days, plus the Thanksgiving holiday.
Daily bag limit is two cock birds,
with four permitted in possession
after the first day.
Rabbit hunting, however, will be
permitted through Dec. 80 this year,
adding four days to the open season.
The limit on rabbits is four, with
four in possession.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Births

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Cupp, Colum-
bus Grove, a boy, Robert Richard,
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Pifer, Will
Jamestown, girl, Kathy lone, Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Bowyer,
Bluffton, boy, Michael Lee, Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Anderson,
Findlay, a girl, Beth Renee, Sum
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Frey, Leip-
sic, a boy, Monday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
They're Coming To See
How BlufftOn Does 1t

delegation from the Washington Court House Chamber
Commerce will be in Buton Sunday afternoon confer
with directors of the Community Sportsmens club together
with of the Junior Chamber
the Business Mems association relative promotion of
bow derby.
The Washington Court House delegation have arranged
to visit Buttons parks and quarres addition obtain
ing information about Butons derby which proved
successful last
They also interested in seeing plans the coming
derby in which the Buton club plan stock hafton
of rainbow in the Buckeye here spring
The visitors have completed plans promote fishing
derby Washington Court House next and have
ordered large number of trout for stocking small lake
within their city limits
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Santa Claus Here
Saturday, Dec. z

Heralding the approach of the
Christmas season, jolly Old Saint
Nick will make his annual pre- Yule-
tide appearance in Bluffton on Sat
urday, Dec. 2, to renew acquain-
tance with the towns kiddies and
learn what they expect to find in
their stockings on Christmas morn
ing this year.
Santa's huge pack will hold a
Christmas treat for all those who
come to see him at his headquar-
ters in downtown Bluffton during tire
afternoon observance.
Accompanying Santa this year
will be real live reindeer from his
huge herd at the North Pole, the
first time that the jolly patron saint
of Christmas has brought one of his
steeds here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Richard Mun,nad On
Theological Faculty

Rev. Richard Mumma, formerly
of Bluffton who has been affiliated
for the past year with Presbyterian
Theological seminary in Montreal,
Canada, has been formally inducted
into the chair of New Testament lit
erature and exegesis.
Induction service under ausupices
of the Presbytery of Montreal were
held in that city Wednesday night
at MacVicar Memorial Presbyterian
church.
Rev. Mumma and his family pre-
viously lived in New York state
where he held a pastorate. For the
past year they have lived in Mon
treal. Mrs. Mumma is the former
Wilma Nonnamaker, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Nonnamaker Of
Spring street.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16

Lured by the prospects of better
pheasant hunting this fall, an army
of eager hunters ranged the coun-
tryside in the Bluffton area Wednes-
day for opening of the pheasant
and rabbit season, principal event OF
the year for Ohio's nimrods.
A drizzling rain which fell inter.
mittently during the morning had
stopped by noon, although skies con-
tinued overcast. Weather which had
been below freezing the first of the
week was noticeably warmer with
temperatures in the middle fifties.
With opening day results living up
to advance predictions of more
plentiful supply of game, most hunt
ers found plenty of shooting We'd
nesday and fair share reported
their bag limits for the first time
in several seasons.
First-day reports indicate the
pheasant supply this season is the
best since 1916, and hunting was
materially better than during the
lean years which have intervened.
MORE GAME
Rabbits also were more plentiful
than last year when the supply was
as low as in many years, and all in
all hunters found that the supply
of game had made a comeback which
made their activities all the more
enjoyable.
An army of hunters arriving
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Time OF STARTING
WORK ON PROJECT
Is MAJOR DECISION
Many Problems Facing Council
in Connection with Sewer
System
Page Dairy Will Present Special
Angle in Buttons
Situation

Passage of a S1S0,000 bond issue
for sewage disposal purposes at the
polls last Tuesday puts in the lap
of the Bluffton municipal council q
maze of problems, including the ma
jor question as to whether the town
will proceed Immediately with con-
struction of sewage treatment sys-
tenn.
Pro and con discussion of the
many factors involved in reaching a
decision as to whether construction
will be launched during the coming
year likely will loom as the most
important item on the docket for
next Monday nights meeting of the
council, the first since voter-approval
was given to the issue.
At the same time it may be neces-
sary to seek clarifcation of the
extent to which municipal sewage
disposal planning will embrace treat
ment of industrial waste from the
local Page Dairy plant, a situation
growing out of a state board of
health order issued to the dairy con-
cern in late October.
IN SYSTEM?
Bluffton's plans for sewage treat
ment, already completed and ap-
proved by state and national authori-
ties, have been predicted on hand
ling the Page wastes in addition to
the towns sewage, a factor which
would require the construction of a
larger treatment plant than other
wise would be necessary.
However, in the October state
board of health order notifying
Page to stop discharging plant in
dustrial wastes in Riley creek, the
dairy company was given the choice
of going into the town system or
installing its own individual treat
ment facilities, whichever it prefer
red.
In other communities Page is re-
ported to have cooperated with muni-
cipal planning as to the answer to
their disposal problems, but the de-
cision as to what course of action
will be followed here likely will
hinge on the extent of their cost in
constructing BIuffton's treatment sys-
tenn.
DETERMINE PROCEDURE
Conferences between Page engin-
GERS and the towns consulting en-
gineering firm, Finkbeiner, Pettis
and Strout, likely will be held soon
to determine the dairy concerns
share of the cost of sewage disposal
treatment here before a decision will
be Forthcoming on the matter.
Under the state board of health
order, the Page Co. was directed to
proceed with immediate planning
for a treatment program, the first
step in a breakdown on local pollu-
tion of streams passing through the
town.
Although no move has been made
so far by the health department with
respect to municipal sewage dis
charged into public streams, it was
announced during the summer that
pollution checks will be made in this
area yet this year, and there is pos
sibility that the village also may
soon find itself in the same situa-
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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
WINDOW SHOPPING
NIGHT WILL GIVE
CHRISTMAS PREvUE
Brilliant Dispay in Gay Holiday
Setting on Friday Night
December l
Formal Opening of Holiday
Shopping Season is Set for
Following Day

Something new in the way oil
Bluffton pre-Christmas activity viii
be featured here on Friday night
Dec. /, in Window Shopping Night
sponsored by the Bluffton Business
Mems association to give a preview
of Yuletide gift merchandise.
In the observance, all windows in
downtown business places will be
decorated in Christmas themes, and
vast array of gift suggestions will
be on display.
During the evening, business show
windows will be lighted until 1880
p. M, setting the stage for official
opening of the Christmas shopping
season on the following day.
STREET DECORATIONS
Main street Christmas decorations,
the most elaborate in several years,
will be erected prior to Window
Shopping Night, and will be lighted
for the first time during the observ-
ance. More than $500 has been
spent for this years decoration
theme.
Store windows on Window Shop
ping Night will feature free gift
attractions each with winning num-
Der which may be claimed the fol
lowing day by the holder of ticket
with the corresponding number.
Tickets will be distributed without
charge or restriction in every bust
ness place, beginning next Monday
WELL STOCKED
Shelves and counter displays in
Bluffton stores are bulging with
Christmas gift merchandise, and
officers of the business mems asso-
citation point out that the greatest
return for your dollar can be OBJ
tanned by doing your Christmas
shopping in your home town.
You can save time because home
town merchants are close to you
and home town crowds and traffic
present no great problem to the buy
ing public.
You can save money because Bluff
ton merchants, not having to pay
high metropolitan rents, can sell al
lower prices, according to the asso.
citation. Furthermore, modern dis.
tribution methods permit Blufftor
merchants to offer the same variety
of merchandise found anywhere.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Former BIuftOn
Woman In Berlin

Mrs. J. d. Spinelli, the former
Mary McGinnis, daughter of D. A.
McGinnis of this place, has arrived
in Berlin, Germany, to join her hus-
band, an army captain, stationed
there, it was announced here the
first of the week.
Mrs. Spinelli, together with her
three children made the trans-Atlan-
tic trip by plane. They will reside
in Berlin for three years.
Capt. Spinelli and his family were
formerly stationed at Ft. Benning,
Georgia, until late last summer when
he received the Berlin assignment.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Outlook Good for Trapping Here
This Winter as Fur Prices Rise

An upward spiral in fur prices,
which has resulted in sharp increases
during the past fortnight, is expected
to bring a renewed interest in trap
ping in the Bluffton district during
the next winter.
With fur prices mounting sharply
upward in a trend that shows indica-
tions of continuing, the price of raw
pelts next winter likely will be suffi-
GENTLY attractive to induce local
trappers to return TO trap lines they
neglected for the last two years be-
cause of lower monetary return.
The upsurge in fur prices is COM
bination of three factors, according to
market experts.
First, the decision of Congress
not to drop the 20% excise tax on
furs is bringing in buyers who
have been stalling for year or
SO, thinking the tax would be re-
peaied.
Second, retailer stocks are very
low.
And, finally, refusal of Ameri-
can dockw0rkers to unload Rus
sian furs threatens to put big
kink i'm supplies, for the Soviet
Union furnishes 30% of all Per-
sian lamb skins used in the Unit
ed States.
The upward surge in fur prices has
been particularly apparent in market
quotations for muskrat furs, the
principal animal trapped in the Bluff.
ton district.
At recent New York auctions musk.
rat pelts were bringing as much as
$500 each. A year ago muskrai
skins sold as low as $1.50.
To u. S. fur makers the three most
popular furs are muskrat, Persian
lamb and mink. On the average il
takes about 80 mink pelts to make &
coat, about 80 muskrat skins ane
from 25 to 80 Persian lamb pelts.
There are no official figures OF
total retail inventories of fur gar
ments, but checks with individual
store operators indicate that stocks
are low, another major factor in the
upsurge in raw fur prices.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
High School Concert
On Friday EUening

Bluffton high school musical or
ganizations will present their an
nual fall concert, Friday night at
o'clock, it is announced by Earl Leh-
man, music director.
Appearing on the program will be
the Boys Glee club with Margin
Holtkamp, accompanist; Girls Glee
club, Vonda Burkholder, accompan-
list; mixed chorus and band; also
vocal duet by Janet Althaus and
Rodney Jennings.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
SMALLER BIRDS
IN DEMAND FOR
DINNER TABLES
Market Prices of Turkeys and
Chickens Near Last Years
Levels
Cranberries Sharply Lower
Other Trimmings Trend to
Higher Prices

Will it be turkey or chicken fol
the Thanksgiving feast this year +?
You can have your choice, for there's
plenty of both and at prices almost
identical with what you paid yea1
ago, a survey of the market here
revealed this week.
However, while turkeys and chick
ems, together with all other poultry
generally have shown little change
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning

Grain (bushel prices) = Wheat
s2.02; corn S1.55; oats 90c; soys
S2.62.
Poultry-Heavy hens 21c; leghorr
hens 18c; heavy fryers 27-28c; leg.
horn fryers 21c; heavy stays 13ci
leghorn stays 12c.
Eggs-Large white 47c; large
brown acc; medium white 36c;
medium brown 35c; pullets 28c.
Butterfat-No. l, 6Oc; No. 2, 55c
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Benefit Feather And
Card Party Thursday

Annual Thanksgiving feather and
card party for benefit of st. Mary's
Catholic church will be held in the
church basement, Thursday night at
8 o'clock to which the public is IN
vited. All proceeds will be for BEN
eft of the church.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16

at Champa, during the Christmas
holidays, India's most beautiful sea-
son of the year.
At the India anniversary celebra-
tion, the Bluffton churchman will be
official representative of the Gen
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Thanksgiving Day
Services

Union services at the Metho-
dist church, $3.50 a. m, with Rev.
NJ. G.. Egle of the Evangelical
Mennonite church speaker.
Christian Science society serv-
ices. 10 a. m. Subject: Thanks
giving.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16

Rev. and Mrs. j. n Smoker, Of
Bluffton, will leave from New York
City via airplane Sunday, Nov. 26,
to attend the 50th anniversary of
the founding of Mennonite Mission
work in. India, a jubilee to be held
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-16
Legion Feather And
BingO Party Monday

Annual feather and bingo party
of Bluffton Legion post will be held
at the Legion hall next Monday
night at 7 o'clock, it is announced
by the committee in charge.