The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-09
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Observations =. weekend holiday
traffic as heavy as ever maybe
this is the last summer to drive for
the duration s. and they're making
the best of it . -. tire rationine
hasn't pinched yet and don't
worry about gas rationing until
after November that's when
congressman are up for reelection
and the Allen county fair at
Delphos next month and Putnam
county in the fall viii show this
year, according to present prospect
Hancock county fair is can
celled =. what's going to happen to
high school athletics next year is
not yet clear =. looks as if bus
transport may be available for team
members where distances are not
too great, but if rooters get there
they'll have to walk.
And speaking of difficulties in
going places, Mrs. Lavina Sumney
| formerly of Bluffton who is visiting
here this week tells of congested
conditions on transcontinental trains.
Mrs. Sumney returned last month
from North Hollywood, Calf, to
her home in Ft. Wayne and her trip
east was delayed for nearly two
weeks until coach reservations were
| available.
Blackouts and general uneasiness
over the war situation are causing
a migration eastward of transients
and visitors on the west coast she
said. When she visited her daugh-
ter six years ago she encountered
one of the most disastrous floods
that section had ever experienced
and this time it's war conditions.
If your house is more than thirty
years old it's good time this sum.
mer to take some anti-fre precau.
tions for next winter by examining
the "thimble" which insulates your
stovepipe from the partitions in the
house.
Clayton Murray who wrecks ole
houses and does lot of repair work
tells US that he finds most thimble:
in older houses burned out. Thi.
makes it possible for any spark.
escaping from minute rust holes il
the stovepipe to fall between tht
walls and set fire to the studding.
Many fires, attributed to defective
wiring are really caused by burned
out thimbles, Murray said, anc
stated further that he seldom en-
counters instances where wiring i
defective.
And while you're on the checkup
|, if the chimney needs repair abov
the roof, be sure to examine it eve
more closely just under the ROOT
Murray suggests.
Glad to see Sam Flueckiger VIII
did an excellent piece of work con
Quoting the district Mennonite son,
fest at the Ebenezer church, Sunda,
night. He's DR.. Flueckiger now o
the Manchester college music facult
at North Manchester, Ind, but man
of the oldtimers still remember hir
as the Berne, Indiana youth VIII
first turned up here some twenty
five years ago and worked summer
on the farm for Peter B. Amstut1
saved his money and got his start i
music at Bluffton college unde
dad" Lehman. And by the wa
Sam really rates as a French hor
artist which is his hobby.
It's one thing to have a job-bu
that doesn't always mean that yo
are on the payroll says Bob MaH
we'll who was here from st. Loui
the first of the week visiting hi
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell
Bob holds a good job as analytica
food chemist with the federal de
partment of agriculture but whe
congress last week failed to az
propriate money for the departmer
it left Bob and all the rest of tn
boys with jobs but no pay envelope
However later developments hav
fixed up the matter of pay so tha
the boys will not go hungry for tn
current month at least.