The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-11-22

lished in the Bluffton News giving
graphic account of Europe as seen
by the soldiers.
And going to the other side of
the world, comes word that Pvt.
Roger Klay, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Klay is now with the u. S.
occupation forces in Tokyo.
Close of the football season high
lights the team record made by the
University high school of Columbus
coached by Herbert Coon, formerly
of NBluffton and son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee Coon. The team with six games
won and none lost is the only un-
defeated high school football aggre-
cation in Columbus. They scored a
total of 168 points to their oppon-
ents' 26. Games were won over the
Ohio School for Deaf, West Jeffer-
son, Mechanicsburg, Worthington and
Weldston and Grove City.
One way to beat Buttons tight
housingsi tuation is to buy a lot
and live on it in an auto trailer
which is just what J. A. Leather
man has done. Leatherman who OPP
crates a South Main sheet metal
shop recently moved here from Beav-
dam. With housing accommodations
what they are here, he bought from
Mrs. Eugene Basinger a vacant lot
on Cherry street near the Geiger
street junction where Leatherman
and his wife are comfortably housed
for the winter.
Modern hunters come by airplane
at least that's the way two Day
ton sportsmen arrived Friday. They
made the trip in a Piper cub and
landed on the Merlin Zimmerly farm
west of town-enjoyed the first day
of hunting and flew home in the
evening.
And speaking of hunting, sports
men who go for big game in the
Canadian wilds say that one i'm
violable rule is that a carcass of
deer, bear or other game found
hanging from a tree with a hunters
tag attached must never be molested.
Game killed and hung from a tree
out of reach of predatory wolves is
never taken by another hunter, and
may be left for an indefinite time,
so says Esmond Griffith who re-
Gently returned from deer-hunting
expedition in Northern Ontario with
party of Bluffton sportsmen. And
speaking of Canada, he says that
rationing is much more extensive
in that country than in the States.
N. w. Hochstettler of Spring
street has added 53-year-old gourd
to the exhibit of relics on the Bluff
ton News window. Hochstettler i'm
scribed his name and the date, Octo-
Der 10, 1892 on the gourd when he
found it growing on their home
farm, the former S. S. Hochstettler
place west of Bluffton. 1t holds
about a peck and has been used for
more than half century as con-
tainer for eggs, seeds and other
farm products.
And speaking of old-time relics,
the following clipping from Bluff
ton News issue of 1908 was found
among the effects of Mrs. ]. NJ.
Mumma last week:
Joe Mumma one of Bluffton's ex-
pert butchers killed and dressed 141
hogs the past winter. The combined
weight of the hogs was 35,530
pounds making an average of 247
pounds. They rendered 1,037 gal
Ions of lard or an average of 7 gal
Ions from each hog"
A large collection of books and
magazines, property of the late
Frank Scott has been presented to
the Bluffton library by his daughter,
Mrs. Elmer Ewing. Announcement
of the gift was made by Miss Ocie
Anderson, librarian. Many of the
magazines are bound in volumes and
some of the copies date back to
1879. Among them are Scribner's,
Harper's Golden Book, Century, At
lantic Monthly, Forum, Review of
Reviews and other top ranking pub
locations.
Appearing in recent issue of the
Hartford Comm Times is
Thanksgiving message of Rev. Pay
son Miller, Unitarian minister of
that city and former member of the
Bluffton college faculty. The mes
sage was one of series written by
various Hartford pastors and pub
lished by the newspaper. Rev. Mil
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