The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-11

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Calendar says it's March. :. but
that below zero weather Monday
morning felt like January -. and
we had our usual bad weather last
Saturday. ..... that's getting to be a
regular happening ... they say
there's been only one Saturday with
out rain or snow since Thanksgiving.
..... and that time a sleeet storm
come on Sunday. :. and basketball's
dead letter here since the Bluffton-
Middlepoint fracas. -. /. funny how
interest evaporates after the team
loses. .... plenty of Bluffton folks
must have been saving up gas for
that jaunt to Celina, Friday night.
anyway gas rationing thus far ap-
parently hasn't been too severe. -.
and that's apparently what lot of
Bluffton people are thinking for tire
recapping places have orders for
weeks ahead and those wind
SHIELD sticker licenses will stick-just
moisten and paste against the glass
on the inside.
And speaking of asketball--may-
be you'll see woman coaching the
Pirates next year. Believe it or not
girls are being trained for just such
a job at the State Teachers college
in Superior, Wisconsin-and they say
the girls are making good. However,
we wonder how the girl coaches will
stop the horse play with wet towels
that usually prevails in the shower
room after a game.
Just as matter of record, Bluff
ton is $40 feet above sea level. This
is in reply to the question frequently
asked by those who observe barome-
ters in the interest of weather fore
casting. We obtained the data from
a "bench mark" at the town hall a
few feet north of the entrance to the
mayors office. The figure appears
on small metal plate embedded in
the sandstone.
Carl McCafferty says they are get
ing tired of explaining that they have
three sons in the army, so he asks us
to publish their names and addresses
which we are doing in another COL
umn. The boys are Bill, private;
Don, first class private and Max, a
corporal.
And there's Mr.. and Mrs. George
Swank who have five sons in the
service-Harlan and Joe Swank and
Marion Fisher in the navy and Geo.
Swank, Jr., and Clyde Fisher in the
army.
Events this week have served to
focus attention on Buttons failure
to provide recreational facilities for
its teen age youth. Enforcement of
the law forbidding minors to assemble
in pool rooms in no wise solves the
problem; neither do letters addressed
to authorities from parents who do
nothing more than complain about the
situation-get at the underlying
cause. We believe little can be per-
manently accomplished unless there
are provided recreational facilities
sufficiently attractive to interest teen
age youth. This is an undertaking
of no small size and worthy of the
best efforts of any or all of Buttons
civic minded organizations interested
in promoting community welfare.
Bluffton lost its oldest resident in
/, the death the first of the week of
Mrs. Elizabeth Oberly, ninety-six and
one-half years of age. With the pass
ing of Mrs. Oberly, the title of Bluff
tons oldest woman goes to Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Parrish of North Lawn avenue
who will reach her 95th birthday an
niversary the 10th of next month.
Beats all how girls are taking the
tip and brushing up en- kitchen tech.
nique-cooking to you. And looks as
If a cook book will be about the mos.
acceptable gift for June brides. Wom-
ans place may be in the home-bu,
you couldn't make her belive It was
in the kitchen until rationing came
along.