The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-04-20
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Fast time beginning IN May !. !.
extra hour of daylight for work in
your victory garden council
pushed the legislation thru Monday
night without protest farmers
didn't like fast time last year cause
hired help quit too early at night
but this year there isn't any help
to hire and cannery operations
NAV be on an if and when basis
with help being drafted looks
as if it will be up to the women . 5. !.
that's what is happening at the skat-
ing rink with Impresario Ray Clark
off for the army Saturday and his
wife taking over /. =. we suspect it
was the work of a practical Joker
somewhere in OPA who took frozen
fruit off the ration list-just at the
time when there wasn't any frozen
fruit to be had :. and speaking of
rationing there's a story going the
rounds about the Bluffton man whose
rationbook inadvertently contained
an extra page of red stamps-4so
extra points-no less j. and chalk
up one for the oldtimers-it rained
the first Sunday after Easter !.
and this is National Coin week
open season for coin collectors
wonder how they do it-we've al
ways tried to collect coins-we col
lect on Saturday night, but we never
could hold on to 'em . i. and there's
the smart crack about the collector
who wanted to exchange a rare coin
for rare steak.
Announcement of the Herman
Trio on the College Music course
Friday night recalls that it was thru
the Music course that Bluffton got
its first peek at bobbed hair. Must
have been some twenty-five years
ago that Bluffton turned out enmasse
to the Ethel Leginska concert. Not
that the crowd wanted to hear her
piano numbers-bless you, no-they
wanted to see her bobbed hair. Yes,
the crowd got an eyeful besides the
earful which was on the program.
And speaking of old times-the
old timers were going back farther
than that the other day-back to
the days when Dode Murray who
ran the dray used to tie his team
to the maple tree in front of the
old Commercial bank on Main street
when business was slack.
Bluffton youngsters who have been
out cunning for starlings are also
shooting purple grackles, similar in
appearance and easily mistaken for
starlings. The grackle feeds prin-
cipally on insects and is beneficial
to farmers and gardeners, say bird
authorities.
And this brings us to the an
nouncement by the Sportsmen's club
of bounty on hawks, reviving the
old discussion as to the relative
merits Of the hawk family. There
is considerable opinion both for and
against the hawk. Sportsmen here
say the State Department of Con
servation is not on record on either
side of the controversy as far as
they have been able to learn.
| Just in case you are wondering
about it, we are glad to report that
there is a camera enroute to Aldine
Wiess, Jr., out in New Guinea
| Aldine had written his mother asking
her to send him a camera, and un
able to find one in retail stores she
advertised in the Bluffton News las
week explaining the situation
Scarcely had the News appeared
when Mrs. Wiess was kept busy
answering telephone calls offering
cameras. "Bluffton surely remembers
it's soldier boys, she said the frs
of the week.
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T/Sgt. Racine Warren with thu
army signal corps at Camp Cooke
Calf, home on furlough last weel
says he feels special attachment