The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-22
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spring sidetracked perhaps like
most other non-military affairs be-
cause of the war effort but
they'll be wearing those Easter hats
Sunday whether spring comes or not
and jeeps speeding thru Main
street as a gri mreminder and
no Easter lilies this year-hydran-
] geas popular instead -. and did all
those candy Dummies go to war too?
fewer colored eggs this year
movies for the kiddies instead of egg
hut on Harmon field Saturday :.
and if you've been used to having
ham for Easter, better think up
something else only one lone
ham for Buttons two meatmarkets
last Saturday and Irvy Long
back again in the restaurant :.
and Ed Lape, at the drygoods store
after doing time in the hospital !.
regrets-passing of Hi Althaus,
| baseball fan, merchant and real es-
| tate man (. and Isaac Brobeck
veteran fireman and one of the last
survivors of the days when Joe
Mumma's crew put Bluffton on the
map at fremen's conventions :.
and old timers insisting that it's a
late spring because Easter is late !.
guess we'll look up the almanac be-
fore planting our victory garden.
Trains are crowded, especially now,
with Easter traffic. Just how con-
gested affairs are on the railroads is
indicated by the incident related by
Sergeant Rudy Wilkins who arrived
this week on furlough from a train
ing camp in California. Rudy board
| ed the train at San Francisco-but
was obliged to stand until the train
had passed through Utah before he
could find seat.
And the poultrymen are arguing
about new OPA regulations which
fixes prices for dressed chickens on
the basis of "New York dress. Just
what is New York dress, the boys
want to know. Some say it's the
fowl bled and with feathers removed
and others aren't sure.
And congratulations to Karl Gable
who is receiving a years subscrip-
tion to the Bluffton News from his
mother, Mrs. Levi Gable as a birth
day gift this week.
IL We thot we had seen most every
thing but there was brand new one
the other day when we encountered
woman whose arms were filled with
packages of bird seed. II don't have
bird-but I'm getting some SEED
so in case / should get one, you see
:" We didn't see.
Although great grandparents six
times, Mr.. and Mrs. j. P Bessire
former Bluffton residents, who have
been spending the winters in Brad
enton, Florida, are enjoying good
health and are looking forward to
leaving this week for their home in
Nashville, Indiana. Nashville is To-
Gated in Brown county, one of In
diana's scenic beauty spots.
Who hasn't had the annoying ex-
perience of running out of gasoline
some time or other? If this dis
turbed your serenity think how the
driver of huge gasoline truck must
have felt when he ran out of gas on
South Main street Monday evening
His truck had thousands of gallons
of high grade gasoline in it but not
drop for him. Bob Benroth took
pity on the luckless driver and took
him to the nearest filling station
where he bought some gasoline car
rying the precious liquid back to his
truck in a small container looking
most disgusted.
Scouting in Bluffton has moved
forward with such strides in the
past several years we have been won
| dering why the benefits being en-
joyed by the two troops could not be
passed on to several other groups.
Boys in rural areas have been clam
oring for Boy Scout organization
| for some time. There is a splendid
opportunity for troops to be organ
lied in Richland township and
Orange township. For meeting places
the Richland Grange and the Orange
Center Community house would
serve if permission could be OBJ
tanned. Local scout officials would
be glad to lend their assistance in
the organization of the new troop
units.
And then let's not forget the girls
There is a big demand here among
the teen age girls for a Girl Scout
organization. Some of the girls here
have been trying for several months
to get something of this nature
started but SO far the problem seems
to be one of interesting someone to
assume the leadership. There's un-