The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-14
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Falls at hand-straws in the wind
=. gets dark soon after supper-no
time for garden work Bluffton
college freshmen giving the town the
cnce over-wonder what they think of
us-or don't they think. summer
being pushed off the stage by stove
trucks rafting over the sidewalks =.
and near frost Friday morning with
the mercury down to a low of 80
and Main street resurfacing being
pushed along in a race against bad
weather-but the colored crew spread
ing asphalt on the pavement finds
time to roll the bones in their spare
moments-and they really can talk
to those galloping dominoes :. never
really expected to see Main street fix
ed up, but it is happening at long, last
well it's election year-surprising
how near-miracles happen just before
voting season :. and hunters crowd
! ing hardware stores over the week
| end before dealers had unpacked their
| first shipments of shells-all of which
shows that good news travels fast j.. /.
| and farmers heard the tiding too-no,
we didn't say "good tidings"-and are
/ posting no hunting signs to greet nim-
rods when squirrel season opens next
week =. and sugar shortage putting
crimp in home canning =. and bet
take a pound of oleo-because there
isn't any butter-if you got a half
pound within the last week you can
be sure there's Santa Claus +. and
coal haulers are scarcer than butter
not regular hauler in town now
maybe you'll have to haul your own
in a wheelbarrow, if your cellar is
empty :. just occurred to us that we
might try our hand at operating a
coal truck instead of wasting time
writing this column we don't know
anything about trucking, but we could
learn-like the woman who said she
didn't believe everything she heard
but she could repeat it and
speaking of gossip, just reminded us
that under the new federal tax law
women's clubs will be required to file
an annual report with the govern
ment's income tax division-and that
goes for mems clubs and lodges, too
and the proposal for a softening
of the city water supply is getting a
| lot of support from the women-al-
though the town council and water
works board have said there's nothing
doing, officially.
Bluffton radio listeners who tune in
the popular morning feature, Break
fast at Sardi's at Ii o'clock were sur
prised to hear staff Sgt. Paul Soldner
from Bluffton one of a group of four
| Ohio soldiers who were interviewed
on a radio program broadcast from
that popular Los Angeles dining place.
Soldner, stationed at Camp Cook,
Calf, is the son of G. T. Soldner of
Cherry street.
! A red beet which grew around a
discarded piece of chandelier is an
unusual exhibit in the News window
this week-the curiosity was brought
in by William Ruggley of North Main
street. 1t was found while digging
beets in his garden last week.
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So you thought it was always cold
in Alaska? Well, you can take it
from Roy Butler, former Bluffton res
ident that you are all wrong. Butler,
a former government inspector at the
Triplett plant, now with the Civil
Aeronautics Administration at Anch
orage, Alaska, says that he found it
comfortable to go about in short
sleeve way up north of the Arctic
circle during the day in July and
August. Butler made the trip of L.
800 miles from Anchorage to Seattle,
Wash, in Z hours by plane and took
five and one-half days to come to
Bluffton by rail from Seattle. The
Civil Aeronautics operates its own
daily plane service between Alaska
and Seattle.
Opening of the high school football
season with Bluffton at Kenton, Fri
day night set old time sports fans to
reminiscing the other day-and to the
best of their knowledge they were
unable to recall of Bluffton ever losing
gridiron battle to Kenton. Their
earliest recollection was a game play
ed at Kenton in 1918 when Tesla
Stearns kicked field goal in the
closing minutes to put Bluffton out in
front by score of 8 to and rabid
Kenton partisans nearly mobbed the
Bluffton boys. There have been about
half dozen games played between
the two schools at irregular intervals
since that time.