The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-02
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Town talk. :. looks like a really
quiet Fourth this time. -. mo fire.
works on sale since the state took a
hand in promoting the safe and sane
idea. and juniors celebration will
be different from the Fourth his faith
er knew. but the great American
custom of joy riding on the week end
holiday will continue. and that in
the face of tire rationing with gas
oline cards a possibility and talk of
taking tires off unessential cars. 4. /.
motorists are apparently intent on
driving as long as gas and tires hold
out. and after that. ..?
One of the finest gardens in Bluff
ton belongs to Isaac Stauffer of South
Lawn avenue. We thought we had a
nice garden but one look at the Stauf-
fer garden puts US to shame. The
rows of vegetables are all perfectly
even and there is not a weed in sight
Unable to get around except by the
use of crutches he nevertheless is able
to work with his hands and is noi
handicapped in the use of rake, hoe
or other garden tools. incidentally
"Ike," as ne is known to his friends
is faithful attendant at the St. Johr
Reformed church.
After six years of absnce from the
community softball pitching ranks
Sid Stettler is limbering up his arm
again and is working at the mound
semi-occosionally this summer.
He says that by the looks of it he
will need to do plenty of limbering
Softball circles have an entirely new
set of pitchers here. Along with
Stettler the following were pitcher:
about six years ago. w. A. Howe
Howard Tripplehorn, Slim Hetrick
Norman Triplett, Murray Trippleh
Roy Hauenstein and Dutch Lewis
Not a one of this gang except Het
rick and Stettler are pitching today
Hetrick is with the Lima Westing
house team.
What is the most common family
name in Bluffton? Surely it is one
of these: Basinger, Amstutz, Bader
tscher, Diller, Gratis. No you arr
wrong. The most common name il
the Bluffton community is Steiner
Our authority is the Bluffton tele
phone book. While realizing that mo-
every resident of the community is 6
subscriber to the service we, never
theless, think that the sample is suf
ficiently large to be an accurate
gauge. Frequency of some of the
most common names is as follows
Steiner, %; Basinger, 18; Amstutz, II
Badertscher, Is; Lugibill, Ia; Diller
13; Gratz, 13; Bixel, IL. We find five
different ways of spelling Lugibill
These are Lugibill, Lugibihl, Lugin-
bill, Luginbuhl, Loganbill.
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Corp. Bill Burbick, Bluffton college
graduate in the class of 1941, who is
specializing in radio work at the of
fcers training at Ft. Sill, Okla, tells
us that he feels right at home in the
laboratory. Reason: Practically all
of the meters, testers and radio signal
devices in the laboratory are Triplett
products with the name of the town
Bluffton, Ohio, stamped right on the
dial.
Following the news account and ra-
dio broadcasts of the American bomb
ing of Tokyo we notice that the planes
used were the famous BIS North
American bombers. If our memory
serves us correctly that was exactly
the type of plane that crashed near
Mt. Cory several months ago carrying
several young army flying officers to
their death.
Among the large number of curious
items brot into the Bluffton filling
stations in the current SCRAP rubber