The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-08


people have been seen heading for
nearby woods with sacks in hand to
bring home harvest. The usual
! plan is to shell the nuts in the woods
in order to avoid carrying back such
heavy load.
Louise Johnson, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ben Johnson, and her sis
ter Mrs. Irene Hartman biked out
to the farm where they used to live
in Orange township on Sunday and
gathered two bushels of hickory
nuts.
Then there's the problem of get
| ting walnut stain on the hands in
the hulling process. Joe Bronson
has had dark brown hands for over
a week and has been unable to find
anything capable of removing the
stain. Soap and water simply make
the stain shine brighter, Joe says.
If anyone knows of any remedy he
is requested to communicate the in
| formation to Joe.
Many Bluffton young people are
frequenting the skating rink at Ada.
Leland Sechler took his two daugh-
ters, June and Carol and their
friends Colleen Goodman and Mary
| Anne Rockey, over to the rink the
other night. Tumbles and spills are
inevitable but good time is always
reported.
Don Burkholder and Marvin Bron-
son were playing football in the
! Bronson yard and after vigorous
! punt the ball was lost in the weeds
A sympathetic cat standing nearby,
sensing the plight of the boys, ran
into the weeds directly to the ball
and brought it to the grass.
Richard Fields, Bess and Joe Good
man, found nice tree of walnuts
out on the county line road. They
biked out to the place and made ar
rangements with Mrs. Fields to drive
out after the boys and sure enough
she found that the youngsters had
about two bushels already hulled and
ready to bring back to town.
1t takes lots of hard work to keep
in trim for tap dancing, says Belle
Potee, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
: Wilbur Potee. For the past several
years she has been taking dancing
lessons in Lima. In addition to tap
, dancing she does comedy dances,
acrobatic dancing, skate dancing and
jump dances.
! Addison Myers seventh grade stu
dent, is a member of the Moo club
and wears a big badge to indicate
membership in the august body. He
says that it has something to do
with drinking pure and wholesome
milk and that he secured the men,
bership by sending in his name in
response to an advertisement in
True comics.
October II may be Columbus Day
but there are eight men who remem-
Der the day about 20 years ago as a
time when eight grade schools boys
were whipped one by one after
school by their teacher for mis-
demeanor long since forgotten.
If you have an urge to travel, why
not try hitchhiking? Kent Geiger,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Geiger
of Cleveland former Bluffton resi-
dents, made trip to Monterey,
Mexico, last month via the thumb
route, covering a distance of 1,700
miles in five days. Kent returned
home several weeks ago just in time
to enter Princeton university this
fall, where he holds a scholarship.
His mother will be remembered here
as the former Flora Gottshall.
The Bluffton News really gets into
the way off corners of the earth in
these days of far flung warfare.
Even thought it's month late the
home paper looks mighty good writes
Emanuel Boutwell,, one of the boys
who is stationed somewhere out in
the pacific.
Eunice B. Trumbo, minister of the
Congregational church at Council
Idaho, formerly of Rockport, has a
special corner of her living room re-
served for the performing of mar.
riage ceremonies, and an historic rug
upon which more than ninety coup
les have exchanged wedding vows i:
used for that purpose alone. Con
corning the rug, Miss Trumbo write:
that it was braided by a mountain
woman in West Virginia from
blankets made from wool carded ant
spun by her mother before the lat
ter's marriage.
Jesse Anderson, Orange TOWNSHIP
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