The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-15
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valentine day here and Lent :.
Easter only six weeks away-comes
on April Fool day-but that's no
April foolin' and slush-filled
streets =. looks as if spring should
be just around the corner and we
hope the corner isn't as far away as
it looked Tuesday during our regular
first of the week snow which comes
regularly on schedule =. which leaves
us still waiting for spring-and we've
been good walters 4. Z. and reminders
in this issue that it's time to get your
lawn mower sharpened !. and more
country roads being opened by the
county's bulldozer with help from
the Richland township equipment op-
Grated by Rolly Moser, Sol Steiner
and Peter d. Geiger pinch-hitting for
Albert Balmer who is enjoying life
in the sunny south at Cornith, Miss
issippi, where snowdrifts are only a
nightmare and seed catalogues
descending on enthusiastic amateur
gardners-wish we could raise stuff
that looked like the pictures s. and
speaking of spring those old overalls
we were going to throw away last
fall viii have to do for another year
since there aren't any to be had :.
all of which reminds us of the story
the oldtimers tell that Beriah Ewing,
erstwhile Bluffton hardware merchant
would never sell the last shovel he
had in stock because then he would
be all sold Outlines have changed
since then.
Of course we're happy to see any
thing that looks like warm weather
but it did seem bit incongruous
to see a group of Mexicans in straw
hats huddled on the corner by the
Citizens bank Tuesday afternoon as
biting north wind swished about
their ears and the ice covered pave
ment looked more forbidding than
ever. They were apparently new
group of laborers from south of the
border just arrived to work on the
Nickel Plate railroad right of way.
From appearance of the newcomers
it was their first taste of northern
winter as it's being dished out in
Ohio these days.
We can't mention names, but there
is a Bluffton shopkeeper who will
vouch for the truth of this story which
occurred last week when an expen-
sively dressed woman in a luxurious
fur coat driving thru town stopped at
a store here and asked to buy pair
of ladies hose. The stranger explain
ed that she was on her way to a So
cial affair but that her supply of
hose was completely exhausted and
she had been unable to obtain new
ones. The Bluffton shopkeeper pro-
duced a pair of hose which the wom-
an purchased, removed her party
footgear, put on the stockings and
continued over the Dixie highway to
keep her social appointment.
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Sometimes finders are keepers
and the story is going the rounds this
week. 1t all started at a farm auc-
tion sale the other day when the
farms went thru the customary prac-
tise of conducting lottery to deter
mine who would get ceiling priced
implements. To determine this, each
prospective bidder writes his name on
a slip of paper and puts it in hat
and the one whose name is on the
slip drawn out of the hat is the pur-
chaser. Of course there was the little
| fiction of bon fide bidders getting all
their friends to put in their names,
too, with the understanding that if
any of said friends was the lucky
one he would turn over the implement
at the sale price. And sure enough
one of the friends proved to be the
lucky ones-he got the implement
paid the ceiling price-but kept it for
his own use.
Wednesday, John Garlinger's Gold
en- wedding anniversary. found him at