The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-06
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| Casters expected ON schedule Sun
day but where's spring
sidetracked perhaps with other non-
military items probably because it
can't get a priority 5. snow fur
ries Monday and Tuesday-just as
oldtimers predicted after the north
ern lights went on spree Saturday
night-or early Sunday morning to
| be more exact !. and we were told
the other day that it's a late spring
/ because Easter il late 8. but they'll
be wearing those funny Easter hats
Sunday whether spring comes or not
and it'll take an extra chit this
year if you say it with lilies-if you
can find any better stick to
! hydrangeas and farmers out
cunning for the Easter bunny that
| laid so many eggs and flooded the
market-yes they lay eggs and
mairzy doats and dozey doats-
everything jivey nowadays-so why
not Easter bunnies and looks as
if there's a chance to get your VIC
tory garden lot plowing this spring
but better get your order in early
;. :. and if she is more glamorous
than ever this week it's because she
laid in an extra supply of cosmetics
Friday to beat the tax deadline-
and that rush made hectic Christmas
shopping days tame by comparison
-. and just for the record-there's
no agitation yet for a change in
Buttons time-apparently every
ones satisfed-farmers most of all.
Bob Henry of Arlington, son of
Cecil Henry and grandson of Guy
Henry of Orange township is getting
a tryout this spring in bigtime base
ball. The Arlington youth is now
in the New York Giants spring
training camp at Lakewood, N. j.,
where he is one of two top notchers
and receiving favorable publicity in
New York newspapers.
! Bob's father, a former minor
league pitcher, was once the property
of the st. Louis Browns. He handed
down everything he knew about
pitching to his son who has been
tanning lot of the regulars in the
training camp. Bob recently was
discharged from the navy after ten
months of service as a machinist's
mate.
Rev. Stanley Rupp, pastor of the
Defenseless Mennonite church is as
much at home in a candy kitchen as
in the pulpit. Fact is, the new
Bluffton minister was an expert
candy maker long before he took up
theology. He comes from a family
of candy makers who have developed
a quality market for boxed chocolates
under the brand of Al-Meda, his
mothers name. Started from small
beginning the business has developed
into a commercial business enter.
prise operated at Elmira, Ohio, ir
the winter and from their summer
home in northern Michigan, neal
Petoskey. during the vacation season
So
| A lot of Bluffton people will b.
interested to learn that the arm,
has an air base in the state oi
Washington known as Geiger field
Cpl. Edgar Althaus who is stationed
there says the name makes it seen
more like home.
1t takes real herman to be 9
chaplain in this war-only the all
forces and infantry have suffered 9
higher proportion of casualties
among their officers than the chap.
lain corps, according to army figures
From the start of the war to the enc
of last year 10 chaplains were killed
in battle, 10 wounded, 33 were pris
oners, one missing in action and 81
died of accidents or illness. At tht
end of last year there were 6,99s
chaplains, 4,255 in the United State.
and 2,743 overseas.
| It's an ill wind that blows no gooc
| that includes April Fool pranks
Some practical joker telephoned the
Steiner coal yard Saturday for two
tons of coal which Jesse Weiss load
ed and hauled to a Bluffton house
holder which it developed had mo-
ordered the coal-and what's more
didn't want it. Well it happened
that just at that time our boss dis
covered the coal bin was bare a.
Mother Hubbard's cupboard here a
the News and frantically trying t.
get jag of coal before the furnac,
tain, Major, or Lieutenant Colonel,
he's got to stand up there and dish