The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-30
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April / Saturday S. yes it's All
Fools day maybe lot of us
ought to celebrate but there's
no fooling about the new taxes that
start then-and of all the days i'm
| the year to start :. there1l be an
extra chit for tax when you drop
in at the Star movie or roll over
the hardwood at Ray Clark's rink
+. and telephone bills will take
| an upward hike too, on May | =.
and don't forget to put a 3-cent
stamp on local delivery letters :.
and springs coming-no fooling
about that-pussy willows are out
and honeybees already seen around
the budding maple trees and
candidates appearing anent the May
primary-there was Frazier Reams
last Friday night, but he didn't talk
politics-pleasing personality even if
he was formerly tax collector !.
and some of the forehanded boys
getting in their coal for next winter
=. and baby buggies coming on the
market again =. and yarn for knit
| ting j. and some metal kitchen
utensils and now since open
season for buckwheat cakes is past
therell be more butter-also cheese
/. but less meat
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Talk of resurfaeing Main street
recalls that Buttons Main drag has
had long and varied history. More
than century ago it was an Indian
trail running roughly northeast and
southwest-which incidentally is why
strangers now have so much trouble
getting their bearings-and Joseph
DeFord, Bluffton's first settler fol-
lowing the trail stopped and built a
mill, a little corn cracker to use
water power from Riley creek !.
then there were the days of Bluffton,
the struggling hamlet and Main
street in the spring was a sea of
mud and raised clouds of dust in
dry summer months and short
ly after the turn of the century came
the first pavement and the inter-
urban when rails of the Western
Ohio were laid full length of the
street and a second pavement
seventeen years ago badly in need
of repairs which apparently are
coming this summer.
Another one of those reunions of
Bluffton service men occurred when
Lieut.. James Griffith and Marvin
Hilty met at the army air base at
Redding, Calf. Hilty, who will be
remembered as tenor soloist during
his high school career here is now
member of the ground crew at the
base. Lieut.. Griffith was assigned
to the Redding base for administra.
tive work. He and Mrs. Griffith
recently were transferred to another
army air base at Oroville, Calf.
When it comes to awarding medal.
for being on the. job, We'll nominate
John Blome for one of them. John
who is employed in the Triplet
machine shop last Thursday hung W
a record of not having missed /;
working day in two years. Congrat
ulations, John.
And when it comes to bouquets
this column gets few-more Otter
it's brickbats, which we probabl,
deserve-but most welcome was /:
generous portion of freshly baket
cake with real icing from Mrs. j. A
Thompson which this writer and th
boys in the News office enjoyed th
other day.
And if your memory is good yol
may recall that it was sixteen year
ago this Wednesday night that Bluff
ton experienced the worst sleet storm
in its history. For about twenty
four hours the town was isolate,
with telephone and telegraph line
down, electric current service dis
rupted because of fallen wires an,
the towns routine generally de
moralized.
Oats in the BIuffton district viii
be planted in April this year. Littl
opportunity for planting in Marcl
because of the weather. And in
cidentally wheat prospects are look
ing up due to recent snow and rain
which delayed oats sowing.
Some of the Bluffton basketball
, fans now have it doped out tha
t the Pirates would now hold the stat
Class b basketball title if the tear