The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-12-23
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christmas by any other name
would still be Christmas-or wouldn't
1t even tho they've streamlined
old Santa and have him in a war
time setting =. s. cut down his load
of toys and candy and added
war bonds-yeah, war bond packin-
Santa :. and even the stockings
are different this year and with
nylons out, maybe they'll hang up
anklets for Santa Claus and
dinner, too will be different, for it
will be chicken, goose or duck !.
turkeys have gone to the army :.
and the other night we heard
serenaders hopefully singing White
Christmas but indications are
none too promising maybe it'll
be green and sloppy with flu
making Christmas less merry than
it would be otherwise and we
hope Santa has c ration card-or
don't reindeer need gas E. and then
there was the little BIuffton lass who
said she didn't believe in Santa Claus
any more, but her mother still did :.
And speaking of Christmas gifts,
High School Coach Hasson got a
whopper in his stocking when the
Pirates rolled up that record score
at Ada, Friday night. Maybe it was
a little early for Christmas, but
coach has had big smile ever since.
That cut in ration point value of
pork has had some unexpected
results. Lowering of the ration
point values was ordered primarily
to increase consumption of surplus
pork which had been flooding the
market. But reports are that house
wives are taking most of the extra
points for purchase of butter which
still requires lot of points.
Carl Amstutz, Bluffton trapper is
jingling an extra five dollars in his
pockets this week, the result OF win
ming an award from a national
merchandising concern for correct
preparation of muskrat pelt.
Trapping is becoming major winter
industry due to high prices paid for
pelts. 9 IA.
Misfortunes never come singly-
apparently they come in threes, at
least for Mrs. Margaret Bogart,
Bluffton rural route carrier who has
experienced three fiat tires in three
days-and right during the Christ
mas rush season. All of the flats
were due to picking up nails-and
two of them in new tires.
With livestock markets in a
turmoil and the future none too
certain, some of the Bluffton district
farmers are just sitting back and
waiting until the situation clears up
and meanwhile taking things easy
this winter. There's Will Steiner who
has done a lot of livestock feeding
in past years. Will says he hasn't
much on his place west of town this
winter-in fact he is doing no feed
ing, except feeding himself-and
Henry Huber, north of town is milk
ing no cows.
Those English walnuts you bought
for Christmas may have been raised
by former Bluffton man-W. H.
Herr of Denair, Calf. He harvested
4,022 pounds of nuts from 36 trees.
He also raises grapes, olives, oranges,
grapefruit and persimmons, he writes
in renewing his subscription to the
Bluffton News which he has taken
for over 40 years. And he's hoping
to have fresh roasting ears from his
patch for Christmas, if it doesn't
freeze, he says.
Something different in Christmas
greetings was the one sent by Olan
Herr, who will spend Christmas in
Italy. The greeting received here
several days ago shows a group of
doughboys capturing Nazi supply
truck, tossing off the Nazis and
seizing a fowl intended for Christ
mas dinner.