The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-14

his trousers!
Seems as though Bob Benroth was
operating the folding machine at the
News plant and asked Guy Scoles
to help him remove the sheets as
Bob sent them through the machine.
Scoles obligingly complied with the
request and while bending over the
folder the knee of his trousers
caught in some uncovered gears.
Scoles let out war whoop and
yelled for Bob to shut 'er off. The
machine was stopped in hurry, but
slightly late, for the knee portion
of Guys pants was neatly removed
the job could not have been done
better by disgruntled bulldog!
Scoles' anatomy was unscathed-but
for awhile it looked as though he
was going down for all ten counts!
Well, to sum it up, Bob wanted to
compensate Guy for the loss but
Scoles, being real sportsman at
heart, at the urgent insistance of
sportsman Bob, decided to make up
for the loss by permitting Bob to
purchase for him a membership in
the Sportsmen's club.
Folks, if you enjoy outdoor sports
like hunting, fishing, tramping thru
the fields and woods, and if you en-
joy the fellowship of an enthusiastic
bunch of real honest to- goodness
sportsmen and women, and if you
like to raise and feed birds, to plant
trees, and build lakes, and observe
myriad of other wild things, and
movies on wild life-then do not
waste any more of your time! Join
your Sportsmen's club now! We are
looking for folks like you-so why
not plan to attend the meetings and
have a good time with the rest of
US. We will be glad to have you.
Your dollar investment will bring a
thousand pleasant memories-think it
over, will you? Meeting night is the
second Tuesday of every month.
Club member c. S. Smith, the
Farm Bureau manager, had the
trigger itch the other evening, but
no gun! While driving his route
near the Ebenezer church he came
upon raccoon wandering down the
road. These animals do their for
aging for food at night and this fat
old fellow was evidently out looking
for his supper! Coon at present will
sell in the neighborhood of $500 per
pelt, and can be taken only from
700 P. M. to TOO A. M. Coon sea-
son closes Jan. 18th, so in these cool
evenings the musical baying of the
coon hounds gives evidence of the
activity in this sport as the season
comes nearer to a close.
Clair Fett has been a club mem
ber for years, but it took Silas Diller
club vice president, to re-awaken
| Clair's interest in wild life. Sunday
ST invited Clair to go along over tc
the campus game reserve to help dis
tribute some dry loaves of bread fol
wild life feed. Clair really was sur
prised at the size and number of fox
squirrels and gray squirrels living
in the refuge and commented on the
fact that he lived opposite the re-
fuge all this time and Sunday was
the first time he had occasion to pay
the place visit. It really is worth
anyone's time to walk thru the re-
fuge and notice the abundance OF
wild life now making their homes
in this safety zone.
Years ago, when Frank Cunning
ham lived in Indiana, he saw a sight
that will always be remembered
Frank was strolling thru a small
woods when suddenly he noticed q
| great number of fox squirrels moving
through the woods, all in the same
direction. Following the squirrels
he discovered they all headed tow.
ard a farm house where farmer
was calling the hogs. The squirrels
scrambled right up to the farmer
and had not the least fear of him
and as the farmer tossed corn to the
hogs the squirrels fed right with
| them. The farmer allowed no hunt
ing and the squirrels over a perioo
of years had become very tame. Ac
cording to Frank there were severa
dozen squirrels feeding there before
him and the farmer said there were
many more in the vicinity that were
equally as tame!
| Amos Klingler, club member, be-
lieves in feeding the game during
the winter season. The other da,
he got a shock of corn and dis.
| tributed it through an IL acre woods
at the farm. Klingler says the
squirrels in the woods really go fol