The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-06-07
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What is so rare as a day in June
-. ah, yes :. they're rare this
summer-fact is we haven't seen
any yet !. musta made a mistake
when we turned the calendar last
Friday-with the thermometer down
in the 40's and 50's this is more like
April-or March j. /. and Buckeye
Lake opening awaiting rebuilding of
the floats and warmer weather ).
but vacation season is here never
theless with the first venturesome
anglers up in Michigan this week
there are the Doc Ludwigs, Fred
Martins, Warner Newlans and Clar-
ence Stonehill trying their luck !. :.
wheat heading and looking good
thruout the district s. corn plant
ing about finished, but acreage is
down acreage cut will be felt
in soybeans too :. and strawberries
they say will be about one-fourth of
a crop which makes the outlook bad
for shortcake no need to worry
about canning because we haven't
keeps up Wen have used up all of
the coal we got the other day for
next winter =. and little relief on
the hamburger front with meat
shops all sold out Saturday night
and closed Monday . and with the
circus starting summer attractions
here, the boys are now talking
rodeo for the 4th of July.
Besides being circus performer,
Burma, elephant with Mills Bros.
circus which showed here Saturday
is valuable aid in erecting the big
tent. Some of Buttons circus fans
who watched the tent crew put up
the big top early in the morning
said the elephant knew the procedure
as well as the roustabouts. And the
job was well done; that heavy wind
and rainstorm which swept over
town just after the afternoon
performance left the tent unharmed.
And trouping with a circus MAX
ing one day stands is no life for
the faint-hearted. Just to give you
an idea of the routine, the circus
showed at Kenton on Friday and
Immediately after supper Friday
the cook tent and kitchen crew pull
ed up stakes and came to Bluffton.
They arrived at dusk, set up their
tent and got things under way for
breakfast the next morning. Mean
while after the circus performance
at Kenton, Friday night everything
was packed and the entire company
was on the move for Bluffton at
daybreak Saturday morning. When
they got here steaming breakfast
was ready. Dinner and supper were
served from the cook tent here
Saturday and after the evening meal
the kitchen crew left for Belle
fontaine where they were scheduled
to spend Sunday and show Monday
night. Such is circus life.
Two first grade pupils, James
Nonnamaker and Ronald Chidester,
were hailed as top statesmen in the
Bluffton schools campaign for the
selling of War Bonds and Stamps
the past year. Each of the boys
was credited with sales aggregating
$4,000.
If you think carrots are just car
rots, you're wrong. Sidney Stettler,
Bluffton high school instructor who
is employed on the State Expert
mental farm near McGuffey says
they are running experimental plots
with 35 different varieties this sum-
mer.
Comes word from Ernie Bigelow,
Bluffton Presbyterian pastor now an
Army chaplain, that he is seeing
Germany with a rough and tough
unit of Combat Engineers. Two
weeks ago they were stationed at
Simmern, 80 miles south of Coblenz.
When Rev. Harvey Mitchell,
pastor of the Pandora Missionary
church enrolled in Spanish class at
Bluffton college last fall, he probably
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