The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-20
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Charlie Lora still receiving con-
gratulations on landing the Demo-
cratic nomination for county COM
missioner and getting ready for
the big job ahead in November
and those new precinct boundaries
got a lot of good voters all balled
up s. they say about a half-dozen
now in Precinct A voted in B ;.
and speaking of Precinct A reports
have it that many voters were re-
corded as disabled due to a clerical
error or weren't they ;.
strange things happen in an election
reminds US of the time the
question came up as to whether
politics was singular or plural
finally decided it was singular-very
singular and Postmaster Reich
enbach sprinting across the street
Monday looks as if he could
do 100 in ten seconds flat and
if you think there are only two
sides to a fence you don't know
anything about that proposed fence
at the light plant i. after you've
heard all the talk you'll be certain
that there are at least half-dozen
sides some of those forehanded
fellows are reported putting beef
| and pork quarters in refrigerator
| storage since meat rationing is pre-
dicted and there's the Bluffton
rookie in the army camp who wrote
home that he was in the noncompet-
ent service.
Looked like something new in the
| way of army transport-a tractor
and semi-trailer which went thru
town Monday afternoon painted dull
olive drab. Longer than a school
bus and we estimated would carry
| from 65 to 75 men in an emergency.
There's still cash market value
for integrity in Steiner
| Brothers-seven former Settlement
boys who started a machine shop in
Lima twenty-seven years ago and
built up a nationwide reputation as
expert and conscientious craftsmen
! in making fine tools and dies, sold
out the other day in deal reported
as involving a half million dollars.
A list of their customers looks like
a Who's Who of American man
ufacturers.
Harvey Bauman, Bluffton college
student who knows his hitch-hiking,
says it takes about four and a half
hours to get to Detroit via the
| thumb method. That's the average,
he says, and actually it will come
pretty close to that figure most any
| time he wants to try it.
ROLAND Flythe, who came here
from North Carolina to live with
his daughter, Mrs. Oscar Wenger
says the climate in Ohio is warm
enough to grow cotton, but the sea-
son is too short. Because of the
longer growing season in the SOUTH
corn may be planted as late as the
Fourth of July and have ample time
to mature.
| Paul Detwiler, of the HyGrade
Dairy, was mighty happy the first
of the week when he received a
letter from the Allen County Board
of Health stating that his milk
products had a very low bacterial
count. A sample of milk, "a hours
old, showed a count of only 5000
bacteria per &C. This is 1900 lower
than the 10000 maximum allowed
| by the state board of health fol
grade-A milk, he says.
|
| This week we overheard number
of public school students here ex-
pressing their anxiety for school tc
start. This is the familiar develop
ment. In the spring everyone is
anxious for school to dismiss ane
after about two months of summer
almost everyone wants to get bach
into the grind.
/ Most of you who live in Orange
township would likely say that o.
the three Anderson farms-John
Harry and Jesse, that Jesse's farm
would be the farthest away from
town. But actual speedometel
measurement has shown it to be ths
closest. A portion of the Harry
Anderson farm is actually closer t.
town but the home is far back from
the road. The Jesse Anderson farm
is close to the road which accounts
for its being the nearest to Bluffton
| Pvt. Charles H. Dillman, son Of
Chas. Dillman of Jackson street, i:
one soldier who will vouch for the
army. He says that army life i:
surely ok. and that he enjoys i
| ,o,. ,,,uob Charles ic stationed in