The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-09-13
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Fall is here-straws in the wind
. :. equinox next week 5. and
football season opens Friday which
is sure sign summer is over
Bluffton college crowd back again
they say the campus is still wo-
mans world-and freshmen giving
the town the once-over-wonder
what they think of us--or don't they
think mosquitoes don't seem to
know the open season is over-any-
way we've been busy s9apping them
down but they'll know it when
stove trucks start to rattle over the
sidewalk most any day now +.
and squirrel season in the offing-
and there1l not be the scramble for
shells this year with the war over
!. and meatmarkets open every
day-and Saturday nights, too
altho ham and bacon are still war
casualties surprising how soon
it gets dark after supper-guess
We'll have to forget that victory
garden that we started last spring
with all those brave new resolutions
well, it was gone anyway, and al
most forgotten since the drought hit
it and speaking of drought
sewage-filled Riley creek is mostly
stagnant now and like a dead
mackerel in the moonlight it shines
and stinks-and stinks and shines
comes word via the grapevine
that lot of farmers downstream
are becoming impatient and want
some action on the sewage cleanup
so don't be surprised if they get
tired of waiting-and if they do,
there'll be a half-dozen suits this
time instead of two Bluffton
Lions dusting off their best and
biggest roars to attend the charter
night meeting of the new club at
Beaverdam Friday--it was sponsor
ed by the local boys another
bad wreck at the Grove street and
College road intersection, the scene
of many smashups and injuries &.
which reminds US that with unration-
ed gas and faster driving, this is
the season of cornfield corner COL
lisions.
Charlie Alderman joshing the
cash customers over at A & P
Wednesday-it was his 18th wedding
anniversary-it happened Sunday,
September II, 1927 and the next
day, the 13th-imagine-he and the
Missus came to Bluffton. Charlie
started on his present job and been
here ever since. He's on the town
council, former master of the
Masonic lodge and the family is one
of the faithful in the Methodist
church-oh yes, we forgot until we
mentioned the fannily--son Rex was
born on their tenth wedding an
niversary, September II, 1897.
And speaking of wedding anniver-
saries-the Lloyd Murrays of South
Main street will observe their Golden
wedding next Sunday. He is the
oldest living native born resident.
And the J. K. Fishers in Orange
township will have been married for
55 years, Friday.
Driving by auto from California
to Bluffton in less than three days
was the record made by 1st 1t. and
Mrs. James Griffith. The couple left
Oroville, Calf, Tuesday evening at
6 o'clock and arrived here Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock covering a
distance of 1900 miles. They made
a nonstop trip, taking turns at
driving. The couple are here on
furlough this week visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Gettles and Mrs. J. A.
Rogers. Mrs. Griffith is the former
Zitella Gettles.
Cider this fall will very likely be
made from shipped-in apples. Seth
Basinger who operates the Morning
Star press north of town and who
opened for the season on Wednesday
has made arrangements for apples to
be trucked here from Port Clinton.
The apple crop this fall is the small
est in years amounting to virtually
crop failure.
Despite the drought there's going
to be corn in the Bluffton district,
especially for those on the right
side of the Dixie highway-by the
right side we mean the territory
south and east which got that VI
day rain at the critical time when
the ears were forming. And just