The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-01
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eat -. now it's just do W,
eatg" and if you don't think 5,
you didn't see the jam at the mea
markets here last Saturday :. no
only from Bluffton, but buyers from
Lima and Findlay as well as flag
| stops In between lined the counter.
and emptied the coolers of boil
shops around 9 o'clock Saturday
night and the boys locked tn.
doors and called it a day saw
Otto Bigler going home before Il
p. m.-something new for Saturda,
Sam Stepleton says there's
plenty of fish to be caught arount
Bluffton, so no need to worry about
shortage of steaks . and laundry
service here is another war casualty
being operated on an if and wher
basis and if you don't like it thai
way you can do your own . +. anc
Charlie Kaufman closes up the
Texaco with ''many thanks to my
few friends" and with meat ra.
tioning looks like curtains for that
great American institution of en-.
tertaining at Sunday dinner-unless
you're lucky enough to have farmer
friends s. and now there's talk OF
egg rationing if and when that
comes wonder whether black market
eggs would be condemned as having
been laid under unsanitary condi-
tions and folks scratching
around in their gardens and
farmers starting oats sowing.
And now it takes a rationbook as
well as a pocketbook to rate a pound
of steak-that is, unless you're lucky
enough to be a farmer and butcher
your own, or you have frozen food
locker. Times have changed since
last Thanksgiving when the public
was assured there was food in
abundance. Either that was wrong
or the current food situation is not
as bad as it appears.
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Gallagher
found himself in the role of mod
ern Solomon when he was called to
South Main street address last
Friday night by an irate husband
who complained that his wife would
MT give him his clothing. when
he gives me my ration book I'll give
him his clothes, countered the wife
Not being a modern Solomon quail
fled to decide family differences
Deputy Gallagher returned to Lima
without another word.
Comes a letter from DIR. Harve,
L. Eby of Los Angeles, Calf, for
merly Bluffton high school principa
during the superintendency of B. F
Biery. DR.. Eby, an instructor in the
University of California for the
past twenty-four years writes:
II have been on your subscription
roll for over 40 years and find
the News must on my list OF
papers. Among other things in il
that l enjoy is the column Mainly
Personal. 1t is well done, distinc-
tive, warm and genuinely personal
The News is truly high class COM
munity paper" Thanks for the
fiowers.-Editor. .~.
Members of the Bluffton college
Booster banquet committee were
highly pleased this week when Paul
Detwiler, chairman, received let
ter from Gov. John w. Bricker
wishing them well in the banquet to
be held Friday night. Early indi-
cations are that a record number OF
tickets will be sold here. Already
there have been nearly 800 tickets
sold. Last year there were 30l
tickets sold for the banquet.
If runs at the meat markets were
noticeable in Bluffton on Saturday
night, you should have seen the
mobs at the Chicago meat markets
on that evening, Paul Schumacher
tells us. Actually the demands fol
meat became so violent that the cops
were called in to keep order. Pau
says that he overheard a customer
angrily exclaim that this is the
biggest meat center in the countr,
and you can't even get a roast.
Congratulations to the Hankisl
Fruit store for the splendid patriot,
gesture in posting the pictures OF
Bluffton boys in the service. Other
pictures are coming in and the store
will gladly start another poster, i
was indicated this week.
Corp. Donald Luginbuhl, located a
Camp Polk, La, had the thrilling
experience of riding and talking witt
Major General Grimes, commanding
officer of the 8th armored division
While he and his buddy were waiting
for bus a staff car drove up ant
the boys gave snappy salute ant
who should it be but General Crime.
who asked the boys to ride to th,