The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-06-03

of traffic. He breaches the same SER
mon twice every Sunday morning to
accommodate the large crowds eager
to hear him.
It's interesting to note the unusu-
al interest manifested in the home
town paper BY the many out-of-town
subscribers. Typical is the comment
of Mrs. Richard Caris, the former
Miss Betty Triplett Of this place, who
is with her husband in training at
Miami, Fla. She says that she looks
forward to receiving the Bluffton
News more than any other reading
material and that she reads the pap
er from beginning to end-including
the want ads.
The Carl Young orchestra from Lii
ma is beginning to be quite a favor
ite musical unit for dancing in this
community. They provided the mu-
sic for the Bluffton High School juni-
or-senior prom and also for the Bluff
ton High School alumni reunion. In
past years they have furnished the
music for numerous social activities
in the community.
Another precedent has been shat
tered here. Not only does Bluffton
have a woman rural mail carrier in
the person of Mrs. Harry Bogart but
now the town has woman manager
of the Buckeye Swimming lake, Miss
Mary Alice Howe, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Howe. Her helpers
are Neil Schmidt and Richard Rockey,
Bluffton High school Juniors.
Charles Tripplehorn, Bluffton nat
uralist, has added number of rep
tiles, lizards and snakes to his coll
lection this week. Having purchased
them from reptile mail order house
in Texas. Bluffton people have pur-
chased almost every manner of COM
modify by mail but we feel certain
that snakes and lizards constitute
new addition to the mail order busi-
ness as far as local addresses are con-
cerned.
Whipporwills and mocking birds
are frequently heard in the vicinity of
West Elm street this past week, it
was reported by residents in that
area of the town this week
Twelve jeeps were carried on a
large transport going through town
Tuesday morning. With labor short
ages becoming ever more acute it
woud appear that this method of
moving the jeeps to their destination
would be far more economical than
having separate drivers for each jeep.
Miss Cecilia Hirschler, daughter of
Mrs. f. j. Hirschler of West Elm
street, is member of the WPB SYM
phony orchestra playing on the last
Friday and Saturday of every month
in the Social Security auditorium at
Washington, ID. C. Miss Hirschler is
an office employe in the War Produc-
ton Board in Washington and was
recently selected to play in the WPB
orchestra.
Music critics rate the orchestra as
the best amateur musical unit in
Washington. The conductor of the
orchestra is Van Lier Lanning, a
schooled professional with a back
ground of symphonic experience.
Rain almost continuously thru the
month of May-but they had their
troubles too-way back in the SOS.
Oldtimers are recalling that this
year marks the Goth anniversary of
the big snow in May.
An old newspaper file reveals the
following diary:
Monday, May 21, 18S3-Sleeting
in the morning. Commence showing
about 8 o'clock; showed hard all day.
Tuesday. 22nd-Snowed z inches
deep on boards that lay on the
ground. Showed some in the morn
ing then commenced to rain and was
showery all day.
"Wednesday, 23rd-Some snow on