The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-12-24
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A Merry Christmas :. or a Christ
mas merry -go-round just de-
pends on whether you've finished hol-
iday shopping which way you'll have
it -. and whether We'll sing White
Christmas in its proper setting just
depends !. +. maybe it'll be green
and sloppy =. or icy =. anyway
keep your fingers crossed and hope
for the best and lots of shop
pers still crowding retail stores !.
shelves looking noticeably bare and
candy counters swept almost bare
-. never saw that until after Pearl
Harbor s. no homemade candy at
stores here Monday -. and if it
doesn't snow by Christmas, we can
look for snow on Saturday night
anyway it's showed every Saturday
night since Thanksgiving-four weeks
IN row :. and speaking of old
fashioned winter a sleigh was seen
on Main street, Sunday and the
jingle-jangle of sleigh bells sounded
good +. and the fappers now have
the jingle-jan bells on their boots
5. and speaking of boots, maybe
the flappers will have to hang them
up by the fireplace on Christmas eve
since they haven't stockings any more
and we hope Santa has a C ra-
ton card or don't reindeer need gas
!. and then there was the little
Bluffton lass who said she didn't be-
ieve in Santa Claus any more, but
her mother still did. -.
Some of the old timers rubbed
their eyes and took another look last
Saturday when an auto trailer went
down Main street with wagon bed
on it bearing the name Simon Herr,
Bluffton, Ohio. Herr was Bluffton's
pioneer harness maker and dealer
in farm wagons and equipment who
retired from that business some
forty years ago.
The old saying that no matter
what you can do, there is a place
for you in the army still holds good.
Roger Hauenstein, musician, whose
hobby is organ playing, finds him.
self in demand at the army air base
at Maxton, North Carolina. In fact
Roger is the only organist at the
post-so he has been assigned as as
sistant to the Protestant chaplain
and now his services may also be
comandeered by the Catholic and
Jewish chaplains who have been on
the lookout for a competent organ
ist.
Comes holiday greeting from w.
FL. Herr of Denair, Calf, formerly
of Bluffton who visited here last
summer, recalling most pleasant
trip of 73 days stopping enroute in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Ari-
zona and southern California.
Glad to see so many of the vet
Grams still appearing in the Messiah.
At the concert Sunday night were
c. D. Amstutz who has been in the
chorus at every rendition since the
oratorio was first presented forty
years ago, and Mrs. Fred Hahn was
another of those always dependable.
And Kent Hauenstein drove up from
Marion with the thermometer stand
ing at zero to take his seat with the
woodwinds, and Oswin Luginbuhl
back at his usual place in the string
section after a furlough last year;
then of course there's Mrs. Pearl
Mann at the piano and Sidney Hau-
enstein orchestra director. About
the only one we missed was Dave
Bixel and he was sitting in the audi
ence right down on the front row.
There will be lot of people alive
after this Christmas that wouldn't
be here if it hadn't been for Pearl
Harbor. Hal G. Sours, state high
way director says that lower auto
speeds and reduction of travel have
brought about 35 per cent reduc-
tion in highway deaths for the first
ten months of 1912.
Here's another Merry Christmas
to the many you have received al
ready. Incidentally it's going to be
little easier to get into the Christ
mas mood this year because of the
white blanket Mother Nature has
generously laid over the countryside
as if to make up for the lack of
colored lights and decorations form
erly so profuse on Bluffton lawns
and the business section.
This Christmasy weather is
mighty fine but have any of you
noticed the havoc it plays on the
contents of the coal bin?
To you amateur camera fans, don't
you think it would be a good idea
to snap some pictures of the snow
scenes now. Snow has been so rare
in the past seven years that good