The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-11-19

cago and travel to the airport from
Chicago by bus for the instruction.
An army bomber recently disrupt
ed the flight of huge formation of
geese. Badertscher, of the Bluffton
News, and Dallas Berry of the Post
Office crew state the geese, greatly
confused by the nearness of the
plane, broke formation and then
gradually formed long line. Final
ly converging into four large V's,
one following the other, they sped
on southwark honking loud protests
at the intrusion of their air lanes.
Four Bluffton shooters journeyed
to l.. H. Class farm near Sycamore
for the annual Armistice Day turkey
shoot. Despite high winds, and a
dark day which lowered the scoring
for the entire assembly, the Bluffton
sportsmen were able to win five
turkeys at competitive shooting.
Those men making the trip were Ed
Reichenbach, C. V. Stonehill, Harold
Stonehill, and Laurence Hosafros.
A good many duck hunting stories
floating around these days brings to
light the one about Charley Dillman
and Sam Stepleton. Years ago the
two hunters journeyed to Turkey
Foot landing at Indian Lake for a
day of hunting. Spying a flock of
mallards on the water the two quick
ly left their boat, waded thru the
rushes, getting into position they
raised suddenly and were about to
open fire when some concealed hunt
ers stopped them from shooting and
demanded their intentions for at
tempting to fire into their decoys!
Further quizzing could not make
Sam admit that they actually fired
at the wooden birds.
The season is at hand when great
wedges of honkers are headed south
and variety of wild ducks can be
seen on ponds and quarries. Such
sights stimulate an interest in hob
bies, and the prize hobby of all is
the collection of migratory bird
hunting stamps owned by Postmast-
er Ed Reichenbach. These stamps
issued from 1885 to 1889 by the De-
partment of Agriculture, and since
1889 to the present date by the De-
partment of Interior, are all beauti-
fully engraved with wild life scenes.
All have pictured the habitat of
fiocks of wildfowl flying, or resting
and feeding. Each of the stamps of
the colorful, framed, complete col
lection has a serial number which in
creases the value for collection pur-
poses. The purchase price of the
stamp is S1.00 each and must be
validated with the hunters signature
written across the face in ink before
he is allowed to go hunting. Eds
stamps are all unsigned because his
duck hunting days were all prior to
the issuance of these Federal per-
mits issued for sale in 1885.
Although Ohio is placed in the
northern zone for migratory bird
hunting, allowing a maximum of 70
days of hunting, the sale of the
stamps in Bluffton is not heavy due
to the few suitable hunting spots in
the vicinity for pursuing the sport.
| Duck season for our zone runs from
September 26 to December 1. All
persons interested in viewing the
collection are invited by Ed to stop
in and look them over.
Don Wenger, local sportsman,
proves that duck hunting is not con-
fined only to the lake areas. A few
days ago, his first trip afeld enabled
him to bag four of the birds on
Riley Creek west of town. Duck
hunting for the Bluffton area should
be better this season since the Fed
eral Fish and Wildlife Service states
| that thara will no an additional 20