The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-08

of 301 tickets sold was topped by so
this year. All enjoyed themselves
and were anxious for glimpse of the
man who already is being doomed in
Republican circles as possible sue
cessor to Gov. Bricker.
Eight of the dozens of chickens
served at the booster banquet were
cleaned and prepared by girls of Miss
Edna Ramseyer's home economics
classes. That's what you would call
being practical something much
needed in education today.
David Carr and Paul Eddy, pilot
instructor stationed at Decatur, Ala,
flew from home to Bluffton last week.
David flew his own plane
cope and Paul, with his wife and baby
flew an Aronca. Paul demonstrated
some of his new flying tactics to
friends here. Clayton Bixel, of this
place, is also pilot instructor. We
wonder how many of these men will
stay in civilian pilot training after
the war.
PFC Ralph Diller, formerly of Bluff
ton and son-in-law of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester Stauffer of this place, is one
of the few soldiers who was able to
stand the rigorous training for COM
bat in mountain areas which has been
completed in the scenic part of the
Rocky Mountains at Camp Hale, Colo.
Ralph is in the signal corps and
| dig holes in the snow bank on the side
of mountain to place his equipment
| for establishment of communications.
Mountain climbing and maneuvers are
very vigorous types of activities re-
quiring an unusually good physical
condition. Ralph at the age of 28 is
the oldest soldier in the unit but finds
that he can keep up with all of them.
His experience driving a Coca-Cola
truck in all kinds of weather was good
training for this type of work, Ralph
tells us.
Bluffton college lassies and laddies
will ltake Thursday off to do the very
un-academic job of cleaning up the
campus. Staid professors and coed
flappers alike take up the rake, the
shovel and the axe to give the campus
a shining new coat. After day of
hard-work there are blstered hands
and sun-burned necks galore.
Demonstration of a wild ducks
homing instinct was made at the John
Warren farm in Orange township re-
Gently. Mr.. Warren delivered two
ducks in burlap sack to Wright
Klinger, living one mile southeast of
Warren. Klinger placed the ducks in
the back yard and that was the last
he ever saw them. Several days later
Warren inquired of Klinger as to how
the ducks were coming and when
Klinger said they were gone, Warren
returned to his home and found them
back again with the other ducks. The
ducks apparently found ther way back
to their old home. Warren has raised
| 10 wild ducks and wasn't aware that
the pair had returned until he counted
them.
Fluff, the nine year-old blue Per
sian cat belonging to Peggy Martin,
really goes in for hunting in big
way. This week the cat brought to
the house full grown weasel, rab-
bit and several rats.
There's one Bluffton woman plant
| ing Victory Garden who learned
something about the quantity of seed
necessary for planting potatoes. She
had planned to plant four small rows
and purchased a bushel of seed po-
tatoes for the planting. She planted
the four rows, then another four rows
and was still far away from using
even half of the seed. Next time she
says that she will buy the proper
amount.
The new steel pennies made their
appearance here the first of the
week-in the hands of local coin col
lectors. These cents are not i'm gen.
eral circulation as yet but will be
minted for the duration of the war to
take the place of the we'll known cop
pers. They have silver appearance
and many here expressed the opinion
that they would be mistaken for nick
les and dimes. We are told, however,
that with wear they will turn darker
because of the zinc in them. These
first local steel cents will be on dis |
play in the coin exhibit at the Basing-
er Furniture store window during ma
tional coin week, April IL to IT.