The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06

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T. o. Allgire of the Pine hotel. A
'lost" ad in the classified column of
the News was the means of locating
the owner.
Railway mail clerks have a busy
life, as Herbert Kindle, on the
Pennsylvania railroads Chicago to
Pittsburgh run will tell you. Kindle,
veteran of the South Pacific war
theatre, recently took job with
the railway mail service. Mail vol
ume out of Chicago reaches its
weekly peak every Wednesday when
Life magazine is handled.
Infiation-you've heard a lot about
it-but in China it's the real Mccoy
as Cpl. William Tschantz will tell
YOU when he gets back to Bluffton.
In letter to his mother, Mrs. Gaze
car Tschantz, he says a meal in
China recently cost him s4,500-in
Chinese money, of course. There's
a real rise in the cost of living.
Monday was quite an eventful day
on the calendar-if you get out your
pencil you will find that the date,
December 8, 1945 brings five digits
in sequence-12/3/45. Those whose
business it is to make calculations
tell us that a similar situation will
not occur until January %, 2045,
when it will again read l/23/45.
Big worries in the lives of little
people-the Don Pattersons' twins
who win be four next month have
been disturbed since their aunt nellie
Lugibill telephoned from Cleveland
and told them she would ride to
Bluffton with Santa Claus on Christ
mas eve. With Santa's sleigh piled
high with gifts as it always is on
the night before Christmas the two
little ladies are fearful that there
may not be room for Aunt Nell
That new residence which Ulrich
Amstutz is building on the old
foundry corner at Jackson and Grove
streets is with few minor details
replica of his former home at
Wisner, Nebraska. The kitchen
with a large window, faces Grove
street which strikes us as good
idea. We've often wondered why
| the kitchen is usually tucked of
in an out of the way spot frequently
looking out upon monotonous and
uninviting view-maybe it would bf
different if there were more women
architects.
The war is over-but troop move
ments continue. Twice within the
past week-Saturday and Monday
nightsT-troop trains each with L
loaded coaches have gone thru Bluff
ton westbound over the Nicke
Plate.
| Comes a greeting from Johr
Spangler-all the oldtime football
fans remember him. To be more
exact it was forty years ago thi'
fall that he Joined that crew of stall
warts who made history for Blufftor
high when Zehrbach, Triplett
Owens and Mitchell and half-dozer
others were hanging up gridiror
records. Those were the days be
fore the forward pass and it was
five yards in three downs. Buf
that's now long past and for gooC
many years John and his famil!
have resided in Columbus where HI
holds a responsible position with thu
John Deere Plow company.
1t was old home week in Manils
when Sgt. Harold Augsburger anC
his brother-in-law Raymond Rey
nolds and Betty Steinman held al
informal Bluffton reunion. Sgt
Augsburger, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Albert Augsburger is stationed il
that city, while Betty, daughter o
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Steinman stop
ped there temporarily enroute t
Japan with Red Cross outfit. Rey
nold's, navy electricians mate, wa
in Manila for some time while hi
ship underwent repairs sustained i
a typhoon. He has since been dis
charged and is now with his wifi
and little son in Manahans, Texa:
Mrs. Reynolds is the former Jose
phine Augsburger. Junior Long, so
of Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Long wa
also in Manila recently, Sgt. Augs
burger said, presumably enroute t
the States.
Remember the Moser Brother:
Swiss Alpine yodlers who gav
several concerts in Bluffton som
years ago? Well they are operatin
a Swiss restaurant in Los Angeles
and in the Bluffton News windo'
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