The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-22
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Springs here-officially by the cal
endar--and what's more to the point.
actually by the thermometer doing
antics in the COS and 70's for a week
:. farmers spring plowing interrupt
ed by early April showers with some
thunder and lightning thrown in Just
to make it more like spring =. and
orchardists eyeing with misgivings
the swelling fruit buds-after all it's
still March :. but grass is as green
as it might well be in April =. and
lawn rollers out from winter quarters
:. and gardeners doing their spading
full month earlier than last year
and digging up carrots, parsnips and
other garden truck as fresh and tasty
as they were last fall-that heavy
snow blanket probably turned the
trick and some early birds out
seeking dandelion greens and
mushroom season isn't too far off !. .
Coach Burcky issuing call for high
school baseball practise :. the first
mosquito of the season breezed in
Monday night from wherever mosqui-
toes spend the winter-which reminds
us that it's high time to get going on
the mosquito program-one slap in
March will save dozen in July .
hatcheries busy booking orders for
spring chicks after a slow start
looks like a big season this year with
current demand for Matching eggs boil
stering steady to strong egg mar
ket.
Lady Luck is still in Bluffton-you
may recall that last week thre ap-
peared i'm these notes an account of
how lost purse containing $3.50 was
found in the owners overshoe. Well
here's another one just as unusual:
Two weeks ago Mrs. John Baxter of
Columbus Grove, employed at the
Triplett company advertised in the
Bluffton News for the return of a
lost fountain pen. The pen, she ex-
planned, was especially priced because
it was given her by her soldier hus-
band just before he went overseas.
The pen was found by Mrs. Leslie
Kimmel of South Main street and re-
turned to the owner. Last week in
the Bluffton News appeared another
lost advertisement inserted by Mrs.
Richard Lewis for fountain pen
which her husband, now overseas, had
given her-and believe it or not, this
pen was also found by Mrs. Kimmel
and returned to the owner, who is en-
ployed at the Triplett plant.
1t looked like reunion of old-time
City Market employees the other day
when We saw three of them in a group
on Main street reminiscing. There
were Sgt. Ed Rice just returned from
overseas, Ralph Reichenbach city mail
carrier and Bob Hostettler now at
Lima tank depot.
Perhaps the weather like history,
repeats itself. Anyway the winter of
1895 was pretty much like the one
just past if one can Judge from two
Golden wedding. When John Gar
linger's celebrated their Golden we'd
ding last month, Bluffton was snow
bound, just as it was fifty years prev
ious when plans for the original we'd
ding were changed at the last minute
becase the minister who was to have
performed the ceremony was unable
to get thru the drifted roads. And
when the Peter C. Herr's held open
house last Sunday on the occasion of
their Golden wedding the weather,
warm and springlike with the ther-
mometer in the 70's was similar to
that of fifty years before.
laundering in the south is booming,
says Albert (Bert) Balmer, who with
his wife returned the first of the
week from Cornith, Mississippi where