The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-10-11
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When the frost is on the punkin'
and the folders in the shock-and
all the rest of it we'll there has
been some frost-but not too many
pumpkins-also not much fodder in
the shock yet . and leaves have
barely started to turn, and here it is
almost the middle of October with
Columbus day on Friday we've
always been happy that Columbus
day came on the 12th-what if it had
been a day later-the 13th-imagine
-. Christopher might have been
superstitious, especially if that par
ticular October day back in 1892 hap
pened to be Friday :. We would GER
tainly have been getting off to bad
start-Friday the 18th and it's
Fire Prevention week which is a
pointed reminder that it's high time
to get things shipshape for winter
and jack o'lanterns will be few
because pumpkins are hard to get
and cider harder-harder to get, we
mean !. fact is Seth Basinger's ci-
der run at the Morning Star press
last week was 8S gallens-and he has
made over 5000 in one day when the
season was good . that frost we
had early last May did the dirty
work in apple orchards here and
one of the tunes always popular on
the radio at this season is Brown
October Ale"-from Robin Hood, re-
member-We've heard it at least a
half dozen times the past week and
we're not a confirmed radio fan eth
er.
Bluffton's cool fall weather comes
as a relief to Pfc. Herbert Kindle and
T/5 James Birchnaugh home from
service in the Solomons and Phillip
pines with the 9th Division. A lit
tie chilly, Kindle observed the other
day but mighty invigorating after
living in the tropics.
And Charlie Ebay former Bluffton
resident who was employed at the
Libby glass factory in Toledo for the
past II years now retired on pension
and visiting at the Purl Hartman and
Hiram Ebay homes in the Bluffton
area.
Miss M'Della Moon, biology in
structor at Bluffton college says it
wasn't a cactus that we exhibited in
the News window last week, but a
succulent, native of South Africa
which resembles cactus in many re-
spects. In the biological department
greenhouse at the College Science
hall are several varieties of succu-
lents, she~said. Also among the un-
usual varieties are grapefruit and
banana plants and a hurricane
plant, a species with large leaves
which grow with big holes in them.
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Church attendance is a good anti
| dote for army gripes, Chaplain Ern-
est Bigelow, home temporarily from
overseas service with the Army, told
an audience at the union services
Sunday night. Gripes are noticeably
less prevalent among the G. |. church
goers, he said.
William Lehman, Page dairy plant
employe who came here from Find
lay is beating Buttons housing
shortage. He is excavating prepara-
tory to building a residence on South
Main street near the corporation line
and until his new home is completed
is living in a house trailer.
Bluffton school district has a valu-
alton of over five million dollars of
taxable real estate. The figure is
$5,002,306 to be exact. The total
shows a decrease of $4,000 from that
of several years ago due to deprecia-
tion of properties and tax adjust
ments.
They're still talking about that Sug-
ar Creek Jamboree at Ortho Cotner's
farm southeast of Beaverdam three
weeks ago when some 500 neigh
bors" enjoyed an old fashioned barn
dance. Cotner, who had recently
completed large new barn announc-
ed community party thru newspaper
advertisements-everything free and
provided an orchestra and some old
time fiddlers for the crowd which
froliced until long after midnight.