The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-17

YOU get in the navy-and you can
take that as coming from Gerald
Swank, in training at Great Lakes,
ILL.,, who was home on furlough last
week. If you've never learned to
wash clothes clean before you got
into the navy, you'll know how be-
fore long. It's a scrub brush and
bar of soap-and some elbow
grease-and the whites had better
be spotless-or else. And sleeping
in hammock" hung four feet off
the floor, or deck as the tars say
and Gerald is thru the training
course of five weeks-so we suppose
he will be real old salt now.
Harvey Bauman, former Bluffton
college student who did lot of
odd jobs about town is teaching in
the rural school near Quakertown,
Pa, where he learned the Three Rs.
It's a one room center of learning
with Harvey hearing all classes
from 1st to Sth grade and among
the pupils are his younger brother
and sister.
It's the middle of September-so
says the calendar-but that doesn't
mean the end of the swimming sea-
son. Some of the youngsters went
over the fence Monday afternoon
and enjoyed dip said the water
was ideal, which doesn't always hap
pen with fall officially just around
the corner.
Armistice day, November II will
have added significance this year
and the following day, November IL
birthday anniversary of Burdette
Clark, Bluffton naval hero who
made the supreme sacrifice. Sug-
gestions were made the first of the
week for a combined observance.
Bob Oberly's experience Monday
night is another illustration of our
contention that it is not only the
professor who is absent minded.
Bob, high school senior, went
home after the scout meeting Mon
day night and suddenly was seen
tearing into the scout room at the
basement of the First Mennonite
church asking if anyone had seen
his glasses. You could have heard
| the gales of laughter a block away
when the scouts informed Bob that
he was wearing his glasses.
For the first time since the war
sstarted the Stonehill family is to-
gether all at one time. Corp. John
Stonehill arrived here Sunday for a
short stay from the army show at
Chicago, Ill. Corp. and Mrs. Robert
Dillman arrived Tuesday afternoon
from Ft. Eustis, Va. Mrs. Dill.
man was formerly Miss JoAnn
Stonehill and has been located with
her husband at the army camp.
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i Charles Tripplehorn has taken al
of his pet snakes and turtles to the
! Toledo Zoo for winter care. His
blue racer is the largest snake OF
that variety at the zoo.
Charles took all of his pets to the
zoo except his pet snake which he
has trained to eat out of his hand
The other day this pet snake had
IL little ones.
Pvt. Roger Hauenstein has real
lied long standing ambition and
is now in the hospital division of
the army air corps. He was recent
ly transferred to that division and is
located in South Carolina. His ad-
dress may be seen elsewhere in this
paper.
Not having any other ducks to
play with, the small duck belonging
to Joe Goodman, 9th grade student
has made friends with a chicken il
neighbor flock. The duck is al.
ways around with the chicken anc
when it rains at night the duck al.
ways cuddles under the chicken
for warmth and protection.
They're tough in the Marine corps
and that comes from Minard Deeds
who was i'm Bluffton college last year
and now is training at the Marine
base at Paris Island, South Carolina
1t happend at inspection the Other
day, Deeds wrote the fellows here