The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-08
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That spring song the first of the
week was shortlived :. anyway we
got a good preview of what is
coming there were pussy will
lows anglers at the waterworks
quarry Sunday-and some mighty
good catches ;. Friday nights rain
provided night crawlers a-plenty
and Monday nights downpour con-
tinuing to hold up spring plowing-
but it filled long-dry cisterns which
means real luxury after struggling
with hard water since the holidays
=. and spring seeds beginning to
move from the dealers shelves-ama-
teur gardeners impatient to start and
oldtimers thumbing the almanac for
the right sign spring shopping
started for Easter, little more than
three weeks away :. and if you are
planning to paint this summer better
not wait for outside paint will be
hard to get unless you can find pre-
war stocks and Buttons iuve-
niles getting home earlier since
there's no place to 90 after MIDI
| night-sad life !. and a final
friendly reminder that there's only
one week left to file your income tax
and the Red Cross drive needs
your contribution.
If you have birthday this month
you can join the "Marchers" founded
by DR.. Helen Barnes of Findlay,
world traveller and a graduate of
Bluffton high schools first class who
celebrates her birthday, Friday
and speaking of birthdays, there are
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Conrad
whose birthday comes on the same
day-next Monday-they'n be 53. i.
and another unusual Bluffton couple
are the Homer Groves both of whom
have the same initials-"H. E."
Mr.. Groves is Homer Ellsworth and
Mrs. Groves is Hazel Eleanor.
And when spring plowing season
arrives, there's Waldo Lugibill at
Hope, North Dakota, who farms a
480 acre tract single-handed. Waldo
owns 320 acres Of prairie land and
this year has taken over another 160
acres just to keep busy in his spare
time. He got an early start last
fall, however, by plowing 200 acres
Waldo is former Bluffton boy and
the son of A. <. LugibilI of South
Lawn avenue.
The Bluffton News gets around
altho sometimes tattered and torr
as was last weeks edition when il
reached Mrs. c. d. Myers in Mans
field, Saturday morning. A mail baf
was accidentally thrown on the rail
road track at Crestline in the patl
of an approaching train which RAJ
ONeI tile pOuSu anu IuNo llo SohtShe'
to ribbons. Mrs. Myers is the daugh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bame Of
this place.
The draft horse is still in the
running team of and 5 year
olds brought 1866 at the William
Amstutz sale west of Beaverdam
Saturday. 1t was a choice bit OF
horsefesh and went to a Findlay
purchaser. The price, one of the
highest brought by a team at farm
sales this spring, is about half what
it would have brought some Il
years ago.
Mrs. Gladys Kaltenbach of Down
ey, Calf, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
John Garlinger, is thanking hel
father for renewing her subscription
to the BIuffton News, which keeps
her in touch with home folks. Gladys
and her daughter Bernadine left six
teen years ago for California.
Another former Blufftonite who
has settled in California is Miss Vir
ginia Roberts who has purchased &
home in haywood, about s, miles
from downtown Los Angeles. Mrs
Florence Highland Murphy, former
Bluffton woman also lives in May
wood.
And from Tucson, Arizona, comes