The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-24
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Like the kings horses and the
kings men who marched up the
street and marched back again-the
thermometers mercury did just that
Monday it went to top of 81
degrees-and Tuesday back to the
fifties just when we had been
welcoming back spring weather
which we hadn't seen since last
March-remember when we. had
spring then j. and right at COM
mencement season and ten
days rain stopped Friday night for
College May Day Saturday-some of
the old timers said May day was
rained out once, years ago-but
that's too far back to count and
subdebs blossoming in slacks
and the Buckeye getting all set for
opening of the swimming season on
Decoration day i. and speaking of
Decoration day, they're Sticking
things up at Maple Grove cemetery
and it's a big job to trim that
twelve acre tract with grass grow
ing as it does these days and
first straw hats of the season sight
ed on the Main drag and it's
getting time to open the summer
campaign on the mosquito front I.
and corn planting finally getting
started-that's why you don't have
to wait so long for a haircut at
Pats and Bob's :. and meat mark
cts closed Mondays and Thursdays
never thot rationing would come to
this plenty of cattle and hogs
on farms in the Bluffton district
but there are VIA quotas and
since there's not enuf hamburger to
go round housewives are now fall
ing back on higher rationed point
steaks and speaking of ration
ing, it's hit the high school alumni
only enuf points to accommodate 100
at the dinner on Friday night, but
the program and dancing afterward
aren't rationed :. and women man
ming Buttons rural delivery serv-
ice one hundred per cent since Mrs.
Woodrow Little took over her hus-
bands job after Woody went to the
navy-Mrs. Harry Bogart carrying
the other route.
Ships that pass in the night-well
it wasn't exactly that-it would be
more correct to say old friends who
pass in the crowds at bus station,
was what happened here Saturday
night when two Bluffton college
cronies of some 30 years ago in
advertently missed each other. 1t all
happened when Verne Schlegel, prom
inent attorney of Bloomfield, Iowa,
learned that G. A. dad" Lehman of
Rochester, N. Y, would be here for
commencement and Schlegel in Chi
cago on business came on to Bluffton
to see dad" and some of the other
old timers. He arrived early Satur-
day evening on the same bus which
Lehman took starting back to Roch-
ester after appearing in the concert
here Friday night. Neither noticed
the other in the crowd at the bus
station. Schlegel was student in
the academy back in 1914 when Leh-
man was head of the college music
department here. And just by way
of added interest Schlegel is a
grandfather now with two sons in
service.
Then there was another old timer
Arch Griffith who came all the
way from Madison, West Virginia,
to attend the reunion of his class
1915 it was-and say hello to all the
folks and visit his brother Esmond.
And the old timers-also some that
weren't so old-had their inning at
the booster concert at the college
Friday night. 1t was like turning
back pages of the family album to
see and hear some of those who made
musical history back in the days of
the old chapel redolent with memoir
les of yesteryear.
Mrs. M. M. Kibler who has attend
ed every alumni reunion except one