The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-11-29
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The pheasant hunting boys have
shut up shop and called it quits !.
the season was the shortest in years
officially of course you can
shoot 'em until the Saturday night
deadline, but fact is, with exception
of few stragglers everything fold
ed up right after Thanksgiving
pickings were so slim that it just
wasn't worth the effort and you
can take it from US, the word got
around fast-so fast in fact, that a
lot of the out of town boys who had
rooms reserved for the last of this
week cancelled their accommodations
which made some hotel impress
arios and tourist house madams
quite unhappy ). and if you didn't
have turkey last Thursday, there's
still more than an even chance that
you will have a turkey dinner, may
be Christmas, as a big surplus of
birds which the Thanksgiving mark
ct couldn't absorb went into cold
storage for the holiday trade-and
then comes New Years which could
easily rate turkey and with
meat rationing off, we don't have to
bother taking our ration book to the
butcher shop to ask for ham which
they don't have-fact is, Bluffton
took news of the end of meat points
in its stride but bacon is as
scarce as ever and one dealer
said some folks who formerly used
margarine are now calling for but
ter, since it is hard to get-which
leads to the observation that all
mules are not quadrupeds and
altho winter will not be here until
next month by the calendar, it came
just the same-with a low of 13
degrees Friday-we knew it because
Jess Manages and our editor took
their fur caps out of mothballs-
and that makes winter officially here
. and with service men coming
home, Buttons business section is
taking on renewed activity fill
ing stations, lunch stands, cleaning
and pressing and retail stores which
have been operating with skeleton
stats doing double duty are fast
getting back to normal 4. and talk
is that postwar months will see
about double the pre-war number
of automobile salesrooms here and
prospects are that the home appli-
ance business will be in for an even
bigger boom and speaking of
modern equipment, they say Risser's
has a machine that turns out
French fried potatoes while you
wait. s.
Congratulations to Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Geiger, south of town on the
Dixie who celebrated their 59th we'd
ding anniversary last Sunday. Mr..
Geiger is SO and his wife 81. They
were married by Rev. Chris. Som
mer in 1886 in Wayne county at the
home of Mrs. Geiger's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Moser. Their three
children are Miss Martha Geiger at
home and Allen of Orrville and
Harry. of Lima.
And the ID. c. Bixels will chalk
up their 54th wedding anniversary
next Sunday at their home on Lawn
avenue. They were married Decem-
Der 3, 1891 at the Abraham Bixel
homestead near the Schumacher
quarry northwest of Bluffton by Rev.
John Moser. Children are DR.. Cord
on Bixel, Mrs. Millard Oberly and
Misses Dora and Fern Bixel.
Born at the same place and on
the same day-and married on the
same day is an unusual coincidence
concerning Charles Hankish, Jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hankish
of Bluffton and David Schultz, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Schultz of
Pandora. Both boys were born at
Bluffton hospital the same day-and