The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-13
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Maybe the OldtlmerS are right
winter this year isn't like the ones
grandpappy used to tell about :.
fact is we don't remember of having
had the snow shovel out this winter
forehanded boys who went to
Texas might better have stayed here
but don't expect too much--as
hoss-tradin' David Harum once said
the only thing certain about luck is
that it's bound to change j. and
they say there's a sharp shortage of
cheese-no we didn't say shortage
of sharp cheese =. and maybe we'll
have to line up for it the same as
we do for haircuts and speaking
of shortages-no more hard coal
until April / is the latest word here
:. wish we could whistle thru our
teeth like that bobby socks high
school lass we heard the other day
!. regular siren . :. (. the whistle
not the girl -.
A lot of friends will welcome Prof.
G. A. dad" Lehman, Friday night
when he comes here for a concert
which should develop into something
of a reunion and homecoming. Time
was-not too many years ago-when
he was head of the Bluffton college
music department, always ready to
pinch-hit on a program when some
numbers failed to appear at the last
minute and never too busy to mix
in political argument. Many q
, student has been inspired by his
enthusiasm which musical success
has not dulled.
Meet Coach Zig" Burcky of Ohio
Northern-yes, he's still coaching
athletics at Bluffton. One coach for
/ two colleges-all because of wartime
emergency, etc. Wonder how he
would handle basketball games be.
tween the two schools-which by the
way are over for this season. Re.
cognition by Northern recalls that g
| Toledo u. coach once remarked that
Burcky could do more with less thar
any man in his experience. Coco
luck Zig this Wednesday night wher
| your Northern Polar Bears meet
Denison, rated as one of the best in
the Ohio conference.
That blizzard which swept the
southwest during the past week was
said to have been the worst in recen,
years. Thomas Koontz received wore
from Oklahoma the first of the weel
telling of eight inches of snow-tht
first that some children in thai
locality had ever seen.
And lack of snow is becoming
| serious here. Farmers say the
stand of fall wheat is already show
ing effects of lack of the usual pro
tective covering of snow.
Up in the Dakotas, where winter,
are usually severe, the weather "a,
been mild this year, writes Wald,
Lugibill who operates large farm
near Hope, North Dakota. 1t wa
a green Christmas and last weel
| saw only a half-inch of snow on tn,
ground. The News reaches them OF
| Saturday and they like this column
which makes US happy and mor'
secure, we hope, on the payroll.
You never know where the Blur
| ton News is going-latest is wore
| IIOHI OSWIH LuSiIUuIl VI AliIld
former Bluffton farm implemen
dealer, who says that after they
have finished with it, the paper i.
passed on to a neighbor, formerl,
from Bluffton-and in these days O.
wartime paper shortage we're glat
to know that the issues of the New
are doing double duty.
And since we're on the subject O
double duty-there's the engine room
of the fire department which dit
double duty late Monday night fo
three distressed Lima women en-
route home from Findlay when tn,
radiator of their car froze up
| Stopping here after garages wer,
closed for the night, Nightwatcl
Murray directed them to drive theil
car into the engine room until i
could thaw out. After more thar
an hour they We're able to procee,
homeward.