The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-02-04

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The San Diego outfit defeated the
Camp Elliott Marines in a tight con-
test 36 to 81. Rcichenbach spanked
the San Diego attack with a total of
l8 points. His nearest competitor for
scoring laurels netted a total Of 9I
points.
Nine Guernsey cows in the herd of
Clyde Waltz & Son of near Colu,n-
bus Grove hung up production rec
ord of nearly AZ tons of milk during
the past year-S3,772 pounds t, be
exact-and 1884 pounds of butterfat
nearly two tons. The figures are
taken from official test records. The
top producing COW made 1904
pounds of milk and 600 pounds of
butterfat. The Waltzs are now ad-
ding purebred Hampshire hogs to
their line of livestock.
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We don't claim to be much of a
metallurgist but do belive that we
have the ability to distinguish gold
from copper. This week customer
at the Standard Service station gave
to Mel Long, attendant, what he be-
| lieved to be three pennies in change
in payment for the gasoline. Upon
closer scrutiny Mel found that one of
the pennies" was five dollar gold
piece. Before Mel could get to the
telephone to inform the customer of
his mistake he was back at the sta
tion claiming the more valuable CON-
Speaking of pennies there was a
total of 1,O00,000,000 of the little cop
per pieces coined last year. When
grouped together in such quantities
even the lowly penny turns out to be
a most respectable accumulation of
capital That's 100000 worth of
pennies.
Larry Miller, Sth grader, is quite
devotee of the comic books. He
tells US that he spent all Sunday af-
ternoon reading the books. He took
little time out for supper and kept
right on reading them.
Overheard in grocery store this
week, 81 don't see how it can snow
when it's no colder than 80 degrees"
If our memory serves US correctly we
were taught in school that water
freezes at 80 degrees Farenheit.
The little bed that you see in the
News Office window was made by
Frank Painter, who made the minia-
ture piece in his spare time at his
home on Jefferson street.
We ran into Rev. Melvin Wentz in
Lima, Saturday afternoon. Rev.
Wentz, formerly calibrator at the
Triplett plant, is now pastor of four
Methodist churches, all near Lima.
He breaches at two of them each
Sunday. Radio is still hobby for
him and he is maintaining his license
as radio amateur. He will graduate |
this year from Ohio Norther univer-
sity in Ada and will take work at |
Garrett Biblical seminary in Chicago |
next year, according to present plans.
| Africa has made a contribution to |
college athletics sometimes overlook
ed. Most of the colleges use the
names of various wild animals for |
their basketball teams. The most
popular is Bulldogs with 25 colleges
using this title. Twenty-Five teams
are known as Tigers. There is one
Terrier. Not counting Golden Bears,
Polar Bears or Grizzlies there are nine
colleges who want to be known as just
| Bears.
| Others in the animal kingdom who
have given their names to higher in
stitutions of learning are Beavers,
Broncos, Gators, Gophers, Rams, Raj
orbacks, Sooners, White Mules, Web
feet and Wolverines. There Is Wild
cats, five Bearcats and six Bobcats.
OF course you've heard the one
about he who laughs last, etc. Well |
the boys on Buttons city basketball
team are getting the last laugh. 1t |
all happened week before last when
the boys lost n game at Lima and |
blamed the defeat on the referee for
couple of raw decisions. Well, may
be the boys had reasons for gripping
word came the other day that the ref
cree was rejected for military service
because of bad sight.