The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-09-28
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When the frost is on the pumkin-
and the folders in the shock well
most of the folders in the shock
which is better than last year when
corn cutting didn't get well under way
until October and speaking of
frost-early risers Sunday morning
saw it s. and hunters felt it-that
noise in the woods may have been
their teeth chattering instead of squir-
rels :. and the boys who tramp the
woods report few nuts this fall-hick-
ory, walnuts, beechnuts or even acorns
and be careful about fire-Chas.
Lloyd found stump blazing in Dan
Basinger's woods, Saturday. and
Secretary Jos. Brickner here Tuesday
promoting the Ottawa fair next week
day and night fairs with attractions
looking better than ever :. :. soy bean
yields disappointing after growers hit
the jackpot for three straight years
they say the average will be under 20
bushels :. also wheat acreage being
put out this year may be smaller than
| last year-already talk of food sur
!, plus after the war :. bicycles off the
ration list and electric refrigerators,
washing machines and sewing ma
chimes and other off-the-market items
may return much sooner than seemed
possible six weeks ago . but fags
are scarcer than ever-dealers have
even run out of under-the-counter
stocks they always laid back for the
regulars and the Pandora football
game Friday-but no betting in evi-
dence-and with all this loose money
floating around-imagine j. and state
highway men checking the Main street
pavement Tuesday-that was a pro-
| filometer they used-we didn't know
what it was either-so we got inquisi-
tive and asked.
To give you an idea of the volume
of Dixie highway traffic passing over
Bluffton's Main street, during the af-
ter midnight hours, Nightwatch Muir
ray says the truck traffic alone will
average 10 an hour between midnight
and 5 a. m.-and this does not include
passenger cars.
Miss Twila Carnieom, Buttons
feminine squirrel hunter who bagged
two last year kept up her record this
year with another pair of bushytails
over the week end-which is more
than some of the men hunters did.
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And Chas. Manages, 83, bagged one
each on the first two days of the seas
on-and there's John Garlinger, TO
who hunts with a rifle brought down
four Friday morning. By the way
that % rifle John uses is an old timer
he bought it 80 years ago and
equipped it with slick peep-sight
which he made himself.
| Our good friend Roland FIythe writ
ing from Kinston, North Carolina cor
rects an error in his report of tobacco
sales at that place which appeared in
this column last week. Daily sales
he says average over one and one
half million pounds at an average
price of 42c per hundred pounds
Kingston is one of the large tobacco
marketing centers of the south. he
writes. Flythe is the father of Mrs
Oscar Wenger of Spring street and q
native of that region.
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High school football season made
its bow at Harmon field last Friday
night-Pirate cheerleaders opened the
first home game with welcome cheer
for Ada, altho at the closing thing;
weren't so CHEEKY for the Blufftor
bows. However, cheer leaders Cert
rude Edgecomb, Mary Lou Shafer
Frieda and Peg Martin did their best
to keep up morale.
Two boys-both corporals-and wei
known here were part of the crew
which unloaded Liberty ship at Cal
cutta, India, in that is said to have
Firing il. however. was another