The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1941-10-02

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always arrive late due probably be-
cause it takes some time until they
fall into the hands of an old mail
dispatcher who by memory knows
many of the earlier designations.
Occasionally at most inopportune
moments we have run out of gas
but we never heard of airplanes run
ming out of gas until last Saturday
when a medium sized plane after
circling over the Quinten Burkholder
farm, one mile northeast of town,
landed in the clover field. The pilot
calmly took out a five gallon gaso-
line can, walked to town, returned
and after pouring the contents into
the plane started his motor and in
few minutes scared away into the
clouds. He started his plane so
| quickly and wheeled out of the field
so rapidly that Burkholder was un-
able to learn where the plane was
from.
Seven junior high school boys, all
living in town, learned Saturday
first hand what it means to put in a
full days work on a farm when they
picked up corn at the Herr brothers
place, south of town. These were:
Joe Bronson, Robert Which, James
Lewis, Don Fritchie, Ray Grouse,
[ Kent and Charles Stonehill. Asked
if the work proved firing one of the
boys responded, 81 sure did sleep
Saturday night"
Promotion Day exercises were
held at the Presbyterian church
Sunday minus Keith Kirkland. His
explanation: Forgot to get a hair
cut.
1t was only a month late but
Richard Minck finally received a
birthday present when he visited his
grandmother over the weekend in
her home at Russels Point. She
gave him nice Eversharp pencil
for school use.
Mrs. Edgar Root was frightened
Saturday night when, home all
alone, she heard the back door mys-
teriously and slowly open. Upon
investigating the matter she found
the cat and dog cooperating in the
activity. The cat climbed up on a
shelf and lifted the latch with its
back feet while the dog pushed
open the door from below. Believe
it or not!
While walking around the grand
stand on the Ottawa fair grounds
Sunday afternoon Joyce Young was
mysteriously hit on the head by
acorns several times and as yet has
found no solution to the matter.
A smart cat belong to Wade Fin
ton of Cherry street has persisted
in knocking over the milk bottle and
then tapping up the milk.
| Remembering in church that she
had left the kitchen fire burning
under some potatoes cooking for
Sunday dinner, Mrs. S. F. Panna-
becker sent her daughter Alice Ruth
home just in time to save the po-
tatoes from being burned to a crisp.
! Using the same rifle with which
his grandfather did some record
shooting, Robert Amstutz, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Amstutz, living
west of town, shot seven sparrows
with six shots. After shooting the
sparrows, he bagged two gophers in
the next Is minutes. At the age of
85 his grandfather shot 38 squirrels
out of 80 shots.
While working in the corn field
George Frick turned around just in
time to see two baby fox squirrels
running towards him. Both of them
ran up his trouser legs and he was
able to catch one of them which he
is saving for pet.
Now stationed at the Detroit vo-
cational straining school maintained
by the United States navy, Marion
Fisher, finds it easy to hitch hike to