The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-09-18

the tail OF chicken almost Dlock
away. Keeping the chicken headed
in the right direction, Buster brought
it all the way home, then turned it
sharply into the driveway at the
Elliott home and brought it to a
stop in the yard.
Talk about condolences! Here's
one that Harry Mericle, Bluffton
mason, residing south of town on
the Dixie highway heard the other
day. Mericle picked up a hitch
hiking youth just outside of Bea-
verdam. The lad, a member of
Uncle Sans air corps had just got
ten ride from Lima to Beaverdam
in car bearing Utah license. The
youth himself is from Utah and the
man driving the car, it was soon dis
closed was not only from the same
town as the hitch-hiker, but actually
lived on the same street, only four
doors apart.
Three people in the Bluffton dis
trict say it's real surprise to find
your picture in nationally dis
tributed publication. Pictures of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harleigh Burkholder,
residing south of Bluffton and Miss
Minnie Niswander of Pandora en-
ployed at the Triplett plant here
were in last weeks issue of Life
magazine.
1t all happened when the Bluffton
group attended the Ohio State fair
and visited one of the principal at
tractions-Ohio's Most Typical Farm
Family. A photographer for the
magazine was taking pictures of the
exhibit as the Blutfton people were
there and they were inadvertently
included in the photo.
The farm family lived for one
week in the home on the fair
grounds with all modern comforts
and conveniences except privacy. A
total of 205,296 people visited the
exhibit.
We've seen a lot of strange things
go up and down the Dixie highway
but there was a brand new one last
Sunday afternoon when two sub
debs on horseback riding up South
Main street used the lawn strip be-
tween the sidewalk and the curb as
bride path.
The Bluffton News surely gets
around-comes word from Miss
Eunice Trumbo of Council, Idaho
that a copy of the News which she
happened to leave at the telephone
central office in that city was found
by a Mrs. Hilty whose husband was
working on a telephone construction
crew located at that place. Miss
Trumbo now minister of the Congre-
gational Christian church in Council,
has resided in Idaho for many years.
mer Rockport correspondent for the
News. Just to show that she knows
what is going on in Bluffton she
enclosed a newspaper clipping con-
corning a wandering turtle and ask
ed that we give the article to Chas.
Tripplehorn, Bluffton high school
youth who has attained more than
local prominence as specialist in
that line.
Bicycle riding youngsters speed
ing on sidewalks thru the business
section have barely missed several
pedestrians the past week and re-
vived talk of a Juvenile traffic court
similar to the one heard over the
radio broadcast from Dayton, Sat-
urday mornings. Under the Dayton
plan the court is composed of teen
age boys and girls which mete out
penalties to ENTHUSIASTICALLY i'm
pounding Of the bicycle, or loss of
riding privileges for a week or two.
Miss Edythe Cupp, home eco
nomics instructor at the high school
has tough assignment next Tues
day night when she will be judge at
the Richland Grange cake baking
contest. Well venture that any
woman in the grange can stir up a
tip top cake whenever she chooses
and to say which cake is best when