The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-04-15
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April showers =. May flowers
but that snow furry Monday
morning gave the old timers some
thing to crow about when it
showed last November % they said
there would be % SHOWS this win
ter-and Tuesdays furry, they
claim, is the ,27th maybe all
this will help pull the wheat crop
out OF the ruff it doesn't we may
get bread on the ration list +. and
what with figuring prices and ration
points, buying soup bone these
days is almost a big business deal
\. Easter in the offing but we
haven't seen many egg dyes in the
shops 5. looks pretty much like
an eggless Easter but war or
no war, the sweet young things will
have those queer Easter hats just
the same 5. and now they're talk
ing of girl lifcguards at the Buck
eye this summer-guess we'll learn
to swim and it may not be long
before Bluffton ministers will be
pinch hitting as school bus drivers
:. and last years bride may cele-
brate her first anniversary-th
paper wedding" without much
paper since paper table sets, drink
ing cups and what not have gone to
war and the latest one going
the rounds is that of the youth who
joined the navy to see the world
but was marooned in an office job
+, says the closest he has ever been to
salt water was once when he had to
gargle for sore throat.
Just another case of idols with
clay feet-a friend of ours who had
one of the down front seats at the
Cleveland opera Friday night con-
fded that the performance of "Aida"
was soul-inspiring-until she heard
Aida's shoes squeak-which after all
brings things pretty much down to
earth.
Wade Marshall, receiving clerk at
the Triplett company reported for
duty last Saturday in brand new
suit of overalls. In response to in
quiries as to the reason he explained
that he is going out on his farm this
spring and that Saturday, being his
last day in the plant, fellow en-
ployees had presented him with an
appropriate costume with which to
start his agricultural career.
With fresh pickerel as scarce as
the traditional hens teeth, the Bluff
ton Sportsmen's club really did some
thing Tuesday night when they made
good their promise of pickerel sand
wiches in connection with the arch
cry demonstration. The rounding up
of 70 pounds of dressed pickerel
required the securing of most all
of the Lake Erie fish markets. And
We'll add that the pickerel were
extra good, too.
Comes letter from Ebert Kibele,
Bluffton native who is with the army
in England. He reads the Bluffton
News every week. Kibele now in
officers candidate school has been in
England since early last fall. He
was invited to spend Christmas in
an English home, has visited Oxford
college, attends church in cathed-
raj built in 1850 and visited STRAIT
ford on Avon, home of Shakespeare.
And from out on the west coast,
writes Fred Herr, in army training
at Vancouver, Wash, another News
reader. Fred says that the army is
getting sufficient meat of good
quality for the men in camp, altho
the civilians lot isn't so good and
there's lots of horse meat retailed.
Letter from Eunice Trumbo, of
Council, Idaho, formerly of Rockport,
telling of the death of Rev. Truman
Brown, formerly of Bluffton. His
father, Rev. B. j. Brown was pastor
of the Bluffton and Rockport Pres
byterian churches in the early days
Truman, remembered by some of the
old-timers, spent some forty years as
a minister in the Pittsburgh area.