The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-02-24

And speaking of calls to the army
this new program which is cutting
down the student training program
in colleges is slashing already re-
duced enrollments. We, heard of one
small Ohio college the other day
with student body consisting of IA
girls and one man.
Those long freight trains that
rumble thru town over the Nickel
Plate and A. C. & Y. roads look
like capacity freight volume. How
ever a railroad man informed us the
other day that the only factor limit
ing even a larger volume of traffic
is the shortage of locomotives. Rail-
roads, too, are feeling the pinch of
war shortages and have recondition-
ed old rolling stock which normally
would be abandoned.
Rails of the abandoned Western
Ohio interurban line on Main street
which several salvage concerns have
tried unsuccessfully to remove may
remain here indefinitely if the pro-
posed surfacing of two inches of hot
mix is carried out by the state high
way department this summer. This
would eliminate a constant source of
trouble for motorists, especially in
wet weather, when skidding of cars
on Main street has been the cause
of accidents.
Scarcity of onions this winter has
given new impetus to home
gardeners to raise their own supply
next summer. Already predictions
are being made of a run on onion
sets when spring gardening season
opens.
This is open season for amateur
astronomers for at this time planets
are in favorable position for OBJ
servation. The other night a group
of star gazers peered thru the tele-
scope at the high school and got a
remarkably good view of the moons
of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn,
with Sidney Stettler of the high
school faculty manipulating the in
strument.
Elmer Lehman of Pontiac, ILL.,,
former Blufftonite received a hand
some diamond locket last week as a
memento of 90 years of service with
the Prudential Insurance company
The presentation being made by the
company's district superintendent and
followed by a dinner. Oldtimers
here will remember Elmer who pre-
sided at Hankish's soda fountain
some 20 years ago. He is the son
of Mrs. Sarah Lehman northwest OF
town. Two brothers in this vicinity
are Villas and Roy Lehman. His son
Charles is in the southwest Pacific
war area.
Members of Bluffton's Boy Scout
troop who took over Allen county
offices last Saturday for one days
administration during Boy Scout
week received an unexpected thrill
when they were locked in a cell with
a group of prisoners during an in
spection of the Jail. Sheriff Daley
came to the rescue with the key
after the boys had learned how it
felt to be looking thru the bars from
the inside out.
A former Bluffton woman-Mrs.
Beulah Temple Wild-is chairman of
arrangements for the eleventh annual
conference of the Texas Society of
Mental Hygiene which meets at
Houston, Texas, March 2 and 3. Mrs.
Wild, psychiatrist in the Houston
schools is identified with the Bureau
of Mental Hygiene in that city and
prominent in psychiatric work in
Texas.
That sub-zero wave which swept
Bluffton and Northwestern Ohio ten
days ago missed southern Michigan,
writes Mrs. E. HI. Neuenschwander
of Saginaw, a former Bluffton resi-
dent who says they have had no zero
weather there this year. Sgt. Alan
Neuenschwander, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Neuenschwander, now in Eng
land, recently met his fathers cousin,
Chas Kempher of Lansing, Mich,
also serving with the army overseas.
Kempher is a cousin of Mary Helen
Kempher of Lafayette, daughter
of Geo. Kempher. Yes, it's small
world after all.
Ohio's production of Swiss cheese
in 1914 will be limited to 6,682, 900
pounds bv the War Food Distribution