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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
1
A compact chronology references key events: a 1937 House passage on crop control, the 1913 signing of the Federal Reserve Act, Alabama’s 1819 statehood, a frontier treaty between France and Germany, and the 1938 death of drug swindler F D Coster.
Agitation since September culminates Friday with traffic signal lights placed in operation. Early Thursday a broken wire caused delay as power lines were installed by Jimmie Amstutz and Bill Berg and crew.
The Dalton Community Club will meet Thursday evening December 12 at 6 30 in the Presbyterian church dining rooms. C F Buchwalter will lead the program. Church ladies will serve Swiss steak with mushroom sauce mashed potatoes gravy creamed lima beans cole slaw cranberry sauce bread butter jelly lemon sponge pie pickles coffee.
The United Presbyterian Church women host a Saturday sale at Dalton Paint and Wall Paper Store selling doughnuts home made candy and aprons to raise church funds.
Grange meets in regular session December 10 with Worthy Master Russell Hasseman presiding. Next regular meeting December 26 with time change. January 1 social hosts Paint Township Grange as guests.
Mr and Mrs Dean Norris moved to Wooster. Gift wrap supplies and Christmas cards available at the Gazette Office. Walter Domer returned from Pennsylvania with a fine buck. A blazing car at the David Brenner farm in East Greenville drew the Dalton fire department. The Sanders class of the Presbyterian church plans a covered dish dinner on Tuesday December 17 at seven o'clock. bring a 10 cent gift for Christmas exchange and your own table service.
Dalton High School music department presents a Christmas program in the high school auditorium next Sunday evening December 15 at 7 30. Handel's Messiah numbers are performed by the chorus and orchestra with soloists Mrs Paul Dodez Donald Sommers Iona Gerber and Victor Amstutz. A Christmas drama Peace I Give Unto You directed by Mrs Rev Brown features Glenn Berg Dorothy Scott William McFarren Richard Amstutz and Donald Moser with a cast and period setting aboard a peasant cottage Christmas Eve. The public is invited to attend.
Emil Gruenig of Kidron earned the blue ribbon for best cheese display at the Ohio Swiss Cheese Association meeting in Sugar Creek Ohio. Twenty seven associations competed and he received a gold watch. About one thousand dairymen from Holmes Tuscarawas Wayne and other counties attended. The state has thirty cheese factories producing five million pounds of Swiss cheese annually from six million pounds of milk. The cheese is described as the highest quality in America.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Miller of Dover spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Frank Snyder. Dennis Arnold and Wayne Co Grange deputies attend State Grange convention in Cleveland. Red Cross sewing planned Thursday in High School Home Economics rooms led by Miss Catherine Allison. Rev J F Stewart of Midland Pa, a friend of the Snyders, died. he visited Dalton families often. Donald S Forrer, Delson Forrer's brother, enlisted in Army Air Corps and is at McDill Field Florida after training in Texas. Bills Martin Bud McDowell and C R McDowell returned from a Pennsylvania deer hunt with a buck and a doe. one man gave his deer to a Pennsylvania hunter. Venison dinners enjoyed locally.
The home team defeated Wooster High School 36 to 25 on Tuesday night. The reserves also won 19 to 11. Dalton defeated Congress 35 to 18 in a league game last Friday. Friday’s game at Burbank was postponed to Tuesday night.
Mrs. Mary Huntsberger 85 widow of the late Abram Huntsberger died Monday evening at her daughter Mrs. Mamie Garnes home near Wooster. She is survived by another daughter Fannie Hostetler of Orrville and three sons F Huntsberger Massillon Jacob B Huntsberger Brewster and Melvin H Huntsberger Berea along with 13 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Funeral services will be held at the Gaines home Thursday at 1 30 pm and at 2 30 pm at the Martin Mennonite church Rev I W Royer will preside assisted by Rev I J Buchwalter. Burial will be in Martin cemetery.
Simon L Bodine born September 4 1859 in Wayne County Ohio died December 1 1940 aged 81 years 2 months 27 days. He married Susan Horst January 5 1886 and had daughters Ada Lehman and Myrtle Barkman. Survived by two sisters Adeline Bartel and Ora Brenneman, four grandchildren Margaret Amstutz Cloyce Barkman Esther Scott Ruth Shisler, two great grandchildren Lucile and LaGrace Amstutz, and leaves two daughters. He joined United Presbyterian church of Dalton in February 1908.
Tickets selling fast for a Wednesday banquet honoring Dalton high school football champions. Community Rotary Clubs sponsor. reservations due by Saturday December 14. Event 7 pm in the high school auditorium with 15 players, cheerleaders, faculty, and Coach John Swigart of Wooster College. Color movies of Massillon Tiger McKinley Bulldog game to be shown. Letters to 1940 players awarded. Wooster Record cup to be presented for Wayne County Class B title.
Card of Thanks thanks friends and neighbors for deeds of kindness and words of sympathy during the illness and death of our father. Signed by Mrs. Ada Lehman and Mrs. Myrtle Barkman.
Today marks the golden wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs William Shammo of 1827 Lincoln Way West Massillon. They married in Massillon on December 12 1890 with Rev Leggett. They have three children and four grandchildren and will host open house next Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.
J. P. Hassemans and Wallace Akers have returned from a trip to Florida. Baer's Almanac for 1941 is available complete with garden signs at the Gazette Office.
Mrs H J Kraus hosted 25 Class No 9 members for a Christmas program in which the east end ladies performed carols and readings. Deb Periodals included poems by Mrs Grace Myers and Mrs W P Slusser, a dialogue on The New Telephone, and a candle light service. Prizes were awarded to several members during contests, followed by a Christmas gift exchange and a buffet lunch featuring a snowman topped cake baked by the hostess.
Thirty three ladies attended at Mrs Donald Stahl's home for a Home Economics extension meeting supervised by County Demonstration Agent Miss Margaret Burkley. Also present were 20 high school Home Ec students and Miss Allison.
Junior Steiner of Goshen college has been elected president of the Freshman class. He serves on Student Council and the Athletic Association and sings second tenor in the Freshmen quartet.
A correction notes the correct telephone contact for Mrs Lissette Santschi as Dalton 3632.
The 11th Regt Band will not rehearse until January 13, with no sessions scheduled before that date. No further details on time or location are provided in the notice.
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