The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-11-02

asm manifest-few campaign buttons
and fewer posters appearing in resi-
dence windows =. but that doesn't
forecast a light vote next Tuesday
some of the oldtime politicos
forecasting a heavier vote than that
of four years ago when Bluffton set
a record of 1884 ballots cast
and Halloween pranksters season
finally over-the pair promenading
Main street Monday night in the
fat night gown and blue pajamas
was Lois Berry and Mrs. Margaret
Steiner no hickory nuts this
fall-but walnuts fairly plentiful !.
despite last summers drought there
are some mighty fine potatoes in the
Bluffton district-Menno Schumach-
er one of the successful growers has
an exhibit of Katahdins in the News
window averaging two pounds each.
A collection of campaign buttons
recalling hotly contested elections
which have marked turning points in
our national history is being exhib-
tied by Gene Benroth. The collection
dates back as far as 1860, showing
a bronze medallion shaped disc with
a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, then
candidate for president just prior to
the outbreak of the Civil war. 1t
was an heirloom in the family of the
late Charles Coburn and presented
by him to Benroth.
And speaking of politics we were
asked by two high school students
the other day to settle a disputed
point of English grammar-whether
the word politics" is singular or
plural. Now that was a tough one
but after a moments reflection we
decided that politics was singular
very singular.
And now staid old New England
is going to get a closeup view of
that delectable Ohio tidbit, the paw
paw-that is, if they have the soil
up there to raise them. You see,
Bill Plattner, Bluffton native who
lives in North Attleboro, Mass, has
been telling his nefghbors about that
Of nature-the Ohio
pawpaw and the matter finally got
to the point where his sister, Mrs.
Flora Berryhill of Lima sent him
some pawpaw seeds this fall. Ac-
cording to a North Attleboro news
paper Bill has been distributing the
seeds to some of his horticultural
cronies who will plant them next
spring. For benefit of Massachusetts
Yankees, the newspaper goes on to
explain that a pawpaw is a fruit
similar to a banana. p. S.-Bluffton
folks can find a lot of them near
Fox hill this fall.
A new broom sweeps clean-and
the four-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Corrin ing Blackburn of East Elm
street demonstrated it the other day.
Armed with tiny broom she started
down street-and disappeared. A
search by her mother found the child
busily engaged in sweeping the steps
of the mayors office a block away.
She explained to her mother that
the steps really needed sweeping and
she was trying to do a good job.
The latest idea in Halloween
Games from Chardon, Ohio, where
this year invited young
sters to soap their store windows
and offered a price of three dollars
in war savings stamps for the best
picture done in soap on the window
of a retail store. Youthful artists
were asked to sign their pictures in
order to identify them in the con-
test.
The Bluffton News gets around
these days-albeit somewhat belated
in arriving at the far corners of the
world. There's Francis ]. Luginbuhl
out in New Guinea who writes that
he recently received several issues of
last May-and Emanuel Boutwell,
who has been in the Southwest Pa