The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-03-18
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s'NaAsSouay difu sOu III ut lucky IL YOU
don't have to get more coal before
spring arrives. :. anyway the six
weeks winter after Grounding day is
past. ..and last Saturday without
rain must be cause it was the 18th. +.
still bit early for housekeeping ]. !.
not too early for planning your spring
garden. :. remember if you don't
grow stuff this summer you may bs
hungry next winter and who would
ever thot that back i'm the days wher
farmers were blowing under crops te
reduce the surplus. :. and when they
were shooting the little piggies did
we ever think the time would come
when you couldn't buy pork in Bluff
ton. !. times change. -. them We're
the years when Uncle Sam dished II
out to the country via AAA, WPA
and all the other alphabetical agen-
cies. :. now it's the other way-the
country is doing the paying. and if
you don't think so you should have
seen the clerks at the postoffice win
dow Saturday and Monday making
out money orders for income tax
payers. +. must have been about the
biggest money order business ever
handled by the postoffice here-and
they say mail to Toledo swelled to
about three times normal volume. !.
and new auto license stickers making
their appearance-seems as if nova
days everything runs to ration books
and windshield stickers and if
they add many more stickers we'll
run out of windshields.
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Selective service for the army un-
covers all sorts of strange cases
latest is the Kentuckian who reported
here the first of the week for prelim-
mary examination. Married, neither
he nor his wife could read or write
and his sketchy personal records, in-
cluding birth date, didn't check-looks
like a good sized headache for some
seiective service clerk in getting
things Strengthened out.
No indication of rationing of cloth
ing-however, the man of the house
should not count too much on having
a new suit for Easter, especially df it's
made to measure. Indications are
that it will take from three to six
weeks for delivery and besides you
can't be too choicy as many of the
samples shown are already out of
stock.
Comes word from our good friend
Joe Ignat, former Bluffton college
student that the coveted Army-N Navy
"E" award has been won by the U. S,
Automatic Corporation of Amherst
Ohio, manufacturers of screw machine
products. The company with more
than 1000 employees is making an
outstanding record in war production.
Joe is a Junior executive of the COM
pany and editor of "Chips" a mighty
attractive 3-color house organ. Joe's
wife, the former Mary Nord, whom he
met while attending college here is
the daughtr of Walter G. Nord, presi-
dent of the company. Joe, his wife
and baby live in Oberlin.
And word from Harold Woods,
former Bluffton boy, for many years
in Detroit, that the Cadillac plant in
that city with which he is connected
is also to get the Army-Navy "E'.
Harold's picture appears in the cur
rent issue of the "War Craftsman" !"
house organ published by and for en-
ployes of the Cadillac plant. He is in
charge of the safety program in one
of the company's five stock foundries
and doing an outstanding job.
Samuel Dray, remembered by old
timers as Bluffton resident some 80
years ago is operating prosperous
painting and decorating business in
Cleveland. Dray, employed in the es-
tablishment for the past ten years, re-
Gently bought the business following
the death of the owner. In addition
to operating a retail store handling
paints and varnishes, he employs a
crew of five men to do contract paint
ing and interior decorating.
For the information of a certain
Bluffton woman who is wondering
what the war is going to do to Mon.
day morning wash day, we have OBJ
tanned the following from the Office
of War Information:
No new washing machines, but
there will be repair parts for ma
chimes now in use. Glass faced wash
boards will be obtainable. New hant
wringers with only 8 pounds of meta
will soon be on the market. Mor'
galvanized and painted metal water
pals and wash tubs will soon be seen
Borax, washing soda and sal-sods
are still available and supply of sci
probably will be ample; sunlight IN
still whiten fabrics if bleache me-
not readily obtainable. Several on
of bluing are in unrestricted prou,