The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-07-19
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That chill you felt Sunday was
the real thing =. record cold snap
for July-temperature dropped to so
degrees early Monday and fair
weather followed an all day rain on
Sunday, St. Swithin's day-which is
supposed to forecast the next 40
days all of which proves that
all signs fail in wet weather and
perhaps we shouldn't believe in
signs-excepting highway signs
and that rising barometer should
bring fishing out of its recent
doldrums S. and wheat yields in
the Bluffton district making farmers
happy-looks like an average of 80
bushels to the acre !. and roasting
ear time coming, with sweet corn
shooting ears i. and boys coming
back from overseas-some with dis
charges and others on furlough get
ting the glad handshake and
final settlements being made after
the Fourth of July rodeo show
neat sum available for civic improve
ments !. \. and speaking of settle
ments, if you haven't already done
it, better drop in at the postcffice
and lay five-spot on the line for
that green auto use tax stamp for
more check ups on delinquents are
promised.
We noted in this column recently
tale about a Bluffton merchant
who said he was not superstitious-
well, here's another one we observed
last Friday-the 13th-a woman who
had real case of jitters because
black cat ran across her path as she
was walking down town. AS far as
we know, there has no evil befallen
her yet.
If you happen to be in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, you might stop at the
state capitol and call on a former
Bluffton boy who has an office there
and who is rapidly rising in the
administrative division of Pennsyl-
vania politics. 1t is Harold Alderfer,
eldest son of the H. A. Alderfers
who formerly lived on South Main
street in what is now the Ed Scheele
property.
Alderfer is the state director of
municipal affairs in the department
of internal affairs-and by the way
the job is as big as the title. Thru
his office he is in intimate touch
with every municipality in the state
which gives him a wide contact and
acquaintance with town and city Of
flee holders.
He is a specialist in municipal
administration and after graduating
from Bluffton college took work in
| this field. Besides his position at
Harrisburg he is founder and execu-
tive secretary of the School of Local
Government at nearby Penn State
college.
If you can't get train reservations
these days, there's always the pos
sibility of going places by air
which is what Mrs. Betty Triplett
Carts did last week when she went
to Jacksonville, Florida to join her
husband, 1t. Richard Carts who ar
rived in this country after 16 months
sea duty in the Atlantic. Major
portion of the trip-from Cincinnati
to Jacksonville was made in four
hours and forty minutes.
Overseas letters from Cpl. Charles
Montgomery, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Montgomery of Orange
township are a red letter event in
the life of his little sister Sue. She
is thrilled-not by the sights he has
seen in Italy, nor his experiences in
the army-but by the fact that
nearly every letter contains special
gift for her-a stick of chewing
! gum.
Scarecrows didn't do much good
in keeping birds out of his cherry
trees this summer, says Verne
Dardio, living south of town on the
Bentley road. Verne who has a fine
cherry orchard never experienced
any trouble previously from birds
! bothering his fruit because in the
middle of the orchard stood an ever