The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-05-17
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ments in the offing -. and plenty of
postwar problems to furnish material
for graduating programs-and here
we thot our Grafton had taken care of
all that when we graduated from high
school good many years ago s. and
the week after We day finds Bluffton
folks busy with pencil and paper fig
uring up points of their service men
and there are a lot of boys in the gal
liant 37th who should have no trouble
in topping 85 by substantial margin
:. 5. boulevard lights all lighted again
just like those happy half-forgotten
prewar days-but it may last only this
summer and now it can be told
that those civilian defense stirrup
pumps we got here to put out enemy
incendiaries are doing their bit as
spray pumps battling insects in vic
tory gardens :. and lard with ra-
tion tag of 10 points has moved up
among the precious items and
VIA order cutting Buttons meat
supply so Bigler's and Basinger's are
shutting up shop on Thursdays and
maybe Mondays too if the buyers
stage too much of a rush here it
is past the middle of May and corn
planting hardly started-that early
spring we got two months ago was
mostly a flash in the pan but Col
lege May Day next Saturday and we
can look for fair and warmer weather
which invariably comes-can't ever re-
member of May Day being rained out
=. /. and Harry Mericle coming along
on schedule with the hospitals new
heating plant building to be completed
by the first of next month and
Fred Gratz, clothing merchant who
got into business in Bluffton thirty
years ago turning over the helm to
younger hands and speaking of
long time records, there are the Mil
ton Pliers over Jenera way who have
taken the Bluffton News for more
than 45 years and housewives ap-
iplying for canning sugar-but what's
to can?
Trophies of war-a Jap silk flag,
soldiers arband and some money
from the Far East were received by
the Jacob Nusbaums of near Bluffton
from their son Pfc. Melvin Nusbaum
now in the Philippines. All arrived
in good condition and are attracting
much attention.
| And speaking of the Jap war, the
current issue of the Prisoner of War
bulletin published by the international
Red Cross carries a picture of 1t
David Kliewer former Bluffton airmar
| of the marine corps taken prisoner al
Wake Island early in the conflict. The
picture shows a group of American
officers being held at Zentsuji prison
camp at Shikoku, one of the japanese
home islands. According to the cap,
tion the picture was taken January %
1943. 1t. Kliewer ,as far as is knowr
has always been at this same camp
since his capture.
Two resourceful Bluffton college
i girls who are completing their years
work this week disclosed that money
for portion of their college expenses
was obtained by operating a trap line
along streams in the vicinity last win.
ter. The girls Jean Hoover of Wads.
worth and Esther Habegger of Berne
| Ind, made a creditable catch of fur.
bearing wildlife, principally muskrats
notwithstanding the deep SHOWS which
made trapping operations more diff
cult than usual.
"reminiscences of Bluffton of yes.
teryear are contained in a package OF
old issues of the Bluffton News brot
to the office by Mrs. Cleo Smith Of
Lima. The copies were found among
the effects of her parents, the late
Samuel Stettlers and some of then
are more than forty years old.
| The oldtimers just wouldn't have
belived it-that it is possible to plov
80 acres in a day-but that's what
happened on the Quinten Burkholdel
farm north on the county line, Mon
day. Clinton Balmer, a neighbor, re.
lsiding on the former Wilkins farm