The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-04
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Here it is-the merry month of Ma,
and we're about out of breath =.
| it's taken us all winter to get here
thot we'd never make it-but here we
| are ready for summer and early
cherry trees in full bloom and
trees and shrubbery riot of greer
and Miss Zanna Skaters mag
nolia is blossoming verify it's
blossom time if we ever saw it.
and the thermometer joined the
springtime parade and registered II
degrees Sunday afternoon and the
town clock pushed ahead an hour Sun
day morning for official summer fast
time. E. and first mushrooms report
ed Mrs. Robert Benroth found
| one last Wednesday. :. no, it didn't
rain Sunday, but there was shower
Monday Sunday was field day
for fishermen with the bass season
closing Monday for six weeks and
and it was field day for some farm
ers who kept the tractor going to
catch up on belated tillage and
His Honor the Mayor celebrating an
other birthday anniversary Sunday
and Bluffton opera goers making their
annual trek to Cleveland this week
not so easy in these days of gas ra-
tioning :. and speaking of rationing
you can throw away Book l since the
shoe stamp expired as remaining
stamps will not be used 3. and they
say overalls will be shorter-not
length, but dealers stocks with
overalls shorter, maybe it will mean
shorts for victory gardners. -.
Everybody busy-that's what we
hear but there's time for fishing even
in the hurry and hustle of these stren-
uous wartimes. Looks as if fishing
will be more popluar than ever this
year with gas rationing restricting
vacation travel and the fishing con-
test on at the Buckeye. Anyway the
sale of permits have jumped to unus-
ual figures for this time of year.
We are glad to learn in these lays
of paper shortage that issues of the
Bluffton News are often doing double
and triple duty. For instance there
are the Wilbur Amstutzs who after
finishing the News send it to his sister
Mrs. C. R. Reynolds at Albuquerque,
New Mexico, and from there it goes
to an aunt, Mrs. Howard Scoles at
Loveland, Colorado. And Floyd Herr
down at Camp Hood, Texas, says his
copy of the News is reduced to shreds
after it has made the rounds of Bluff
ton men there.
Albert Benroth, caretaker of the
town clock was right on the job Sum
day morning when Bluffton officially
changed from slow to fast time. AL.
tho most of the clocks about towr
were advanced an hour before mid.
night, the town clock continued on
slow time until the appointed hour
| 2 a. M, when it was advanced an
hour. Bluffton residents who happen
ed to be awake at the time heard the
clock strike two, then one stroke for
the half hour and few seconds later
1T announced 3 a. m. with three
strokes for the hour.
Comes word to his column from two
former Bluffton residents, j. j. Jake
Makely erstwhile Bluffton carpenter
and former staunch Bluffton Odd Eel
low for many years resident of Col
umbia, No., and still in good health.
The other from Mrs. Louella Geigei
Temple of Monrovia, Calf. Her sol
is a classification specialist in the
army stationed at Ft. Macarthur some
forty miles away
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An unusual situation developed al
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Mar.
quart in Orange township last Friday
morning when one son, Pvt. Howard
Marquart returned from Ft. Leonard
Wood, Mo-, for a ten days furlougf