The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-02-01
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the Groundhog's answer to the S64
question on Friday =. :. with record
breaking winter for eight straight
weeks, Grounding day is in the No. l
spot now with the possibility of an
early spring it's no thrill any
longer to look at snowdrifts -. which
reminds us of the subdeb in the post
office Tuesday who said she never
could get any thrill out of smacking
lipstick kiss on the back of letter
TO her overseas soldier boy :. and
speaking of drifts, Wesley Tipple, one
of Orange townships oldtimers, says
that this year they are the largest in
his memory for these many years j.
Mrs. ]. E. Hartzler, former resident,
writing from Hartford, Conn.,, says
the mercury dropped to A below last
Friday morning :. and to think that
on the same day, exactly one year ago
it was up to 60 here and Blufftonites
scanning seed catalogues and get
ing ready for spring gardening !.
however, farmers say the ground is
not frozen and this blanket of snow
should bring wheat thru the winter
in top form i. and believe it or not,
Big Riley creek hasn't been frozen
over this winter +. and Jimmy Ba-
singer at the Army Air base, Gunter
Field, Montgomery, Alabama, says
they don't need top coats down there
surprisingly little heat has been
stirred up among the Deserving DEM
ocrats for that political plum, the
job of selling license tags-however,
there are at least two who will be
willing to accept the appointment
which is expected shortly time
was when it was the prize for many
battle royal among the Bluffton G..
o. P. 81. our weekly blizzard was one
day late-it came on Tuesday-but it
came, nevertheless and don't for
get to save electric current during the
present emergency whether or not
you come under the new "brown-o
regulations.
Attendance at the Institute here last
week was surprisingly good-in fact
better than expected with many roads
closed. However many innovations
on the program and good speakers ap-
parently more than Offset the incon-
venienc eof travel. Most farmers at
tending the sessions drove miles out
of their way to get to town. One
farmer who ordinarily drives three
miles into Bluffton, drove 12-and
several, including women, walked to
town over roads that were impossible
for automobiles.
And those attending the institute
had the usual difficulty in trying to
identify the Althaus twins-Levi and
William. AS you probably know,
William was secretary of the institute
and Levi is a member of the school
board-both prominent in affairs of
the Bluffton district-but to tell which
was which is something that puzzles
most people, and the Althauses have
long ago become accustomed to un-
tangling the confusion in identities.
There were flowers on the grave of
Minard Deeds over on Saipan on
Christmas day, all because of the
thotfulness of a Marine buddy, Will
lam Tschantz of Bluffton, who was
stationed there at the time. Deeds
was killed in. the Marines attack on
Saipan last summer He was a ma
tive of Rawson and attended Bluffton
college. He is buried in the military
cemetery on the island. Tschantz's
barracks are near Deeds grave.
You can get steaks in Bluffton, if
you have the ration points-but not
in New York Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Conrad who returned several
days ago from a trip to the eastern
city said that not once during their
IL days stay there did they see
single steak in any hotel or restaur-
ant. Chicken and turkey are the us
ual meat dishes. New York's famous
white way is also dimmed by present
"brown-out" restrictions, they said.
Wartime coal conservation restric-
tions are infinitely worse in Switzer-
land than anything likely to happen
in this country, it was learned by A.
S. Brauen of Pandora, native Swiss,
who has two sisters in that country.
The country's meager coal supply,
imported from Germany, is ony about
one-ffth of the pre-war volume. Res
licences heat only one room and ho-
tells are heated about three hours in
the morning and three late in the af-
ternoon.