The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-09-20
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work these days-and nights too
with vandals overrunning the Grade
school building, couple of robberies
in the business district and a holduu
with all the trimmings of a western
move thriller and speaking of
movies, George Carmack, Bluffton
motion picture impressario says that
new theatre building to be started
this fall will be modern in every re-
spect-and can underscore that word
modern" because that includes tele-
vision, too and this looks like
the beginning of postwar building
boom with Clayton Bixel's addition to
his motor sales establishment ON
Cherry street about ready for the
roof :. but wait until next summer
and you'll see the real Mccoy when
it comes to building principally re-
sidences-one Bluffton contracting
carpenter is already booked full for
next summer and can't take on any
more work and lots of Bluffton
boys enroute home from overseas in
cludlng those in the famous 37th
which was in the thick of things out
in the Pacific since early in the war
corn cutting under way in the
Bluffton district-and fall wheat seed
ing time next week which re-
minds US that farm hands are still out
OF the picture and the family will
have most of the job to do just
heard that oysters will be scarce this
fall &. and Bluffton consumers
have been regaling themselves on
cheese since rationing went off a
week ago-cheese sales have really
skyrocketed and wholesalers saw
Biuffton always was one of the top
spots for cheese sales in the state
squirrel season opens Saturday and
despite all the dither it looks as if
the boys won't be too short of shells
and greetings and subscription
renewal from C. M. Wanbaugh of
Gladwin, Mich, remembered as one of
the boys back in the gay nineties
when oil was king in Bluffton.
And if you happen to see a college
girl walking down town with book
on her head-or a boy with his tie
backwards, it's all right-just part of
the antics of the annual initiation
week here. It's the quaint way which
the sophomores have of welcoming
the freshmen and making them feel
at home in the college world and ap-
parently a necessary part of learning
which is supposed go with higher edu-
cation.
Another report of deer in the Bluff
ton area-this one was a buck seen
in Orange township by Ralph Henry,
Grover Montgomery and Brice Main
last Friday morning on the John Will
kins farm. The animal seen at a
distance of about rs yards appeared
to ignore the three men as it cleared
the line fence at a bound and ran
thru the Walter Marshall farm and
disappeared.
Some unusual things grow in that
garden of Sidney Settlers on West
College avenue. Stettler who is a
high school instructor has gardening
as hobby with a flair for the ex-
perimental. For several years he has
grown cotton and peanuts, but the
latest is a miniature sunfower which
blossomed from the middle of a stalk
that he had cut down several weeks
before. We got him to put it in the
News window where is is attracting
much attention.
And added to the unusual exhibits
in the News window is a twin hook
neck squash grown in the garden of
Clarence Young. Gardeners say that
twin squashes of this variety are
rare.
Another transatlantic telephone
call-this time to Mrs. Carol Patter-
son from her husband Capt. Charles
Patterson who hopes to be home from
England by the first of October.
And a trans-continental telephone
call Sunday from Tommy Conaway
now at Bremerton, Washington, who
will be home soon discharged from
the Navy after service in the Pacific.