The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-12-06
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II llHe you are WIlllug your
letter to Santa Claus-don't put it
off because shortages of everything
that goes to fill stockings may have
hit him as well as everyone else
never saw the public quite so early
shopping conscious-can't recall any
one who wasn't in town doing
Christmas shopping the first of the
week $. in fact the early shopping
idea is so general that one Bluff
ton store last week cautioned against
shopping too early and promised
more goods later-imagine that after
all these years of early shopping
being dinned into our ears !.
Bluffton merchants will tell you off
the record that there's never been
anything like it in the way of free
spending holiday crowds since the
lush days of 1929-that was when
we were promised chicken in every
pot and two cars in every garage
remember? and while we're
thinking of things we would like to
have for Christmas, might ask Santa
to slip a ton of coal in our stocking
If he can get tive can't or
an extra sugar stamp-there's an
idea - sugar = which recalls more
years than we like to admit when
taffy pulls were the great indoor
winter sport those were the
days-or rather, nights-when the
high school crowd chartered one of
those big sleds at Harry Patterson's
or Bill Morrison's livery barn and
went for sled ride and oyster sup
per out in the country-thats when
oysters were 25 cents a quart :. i.
and those were the days when the
Blutfton Reds were riding high as a
fast travelling basketball crew-Ike
Geiger, Sam Augsburger, jolly
Woods, Don Flick and Laffey West
were some of the standbys-and they
played in the skating rink-second
floor of the present Master Feed
Mill which is at the rear of
Buttons newest addition to the
business section-the new motion
picture theatre which George Car
mack is building on the vacant lot
between Risser's and the A & p and
they say that George expects to run
two shows for a while, at least
the Star and the new theatre when
it is completed other construc-
tion in the business section may fol-
low before long-which brings to
mind that Buttons Mid Winter
fair which was scheduled to have
been held this week was dropped be-
cause of lack of buildings in which
to house the exhibits which
points to the existing shortage in the
down town district as we'll as lack
of residence quarters which has ex-
listed since before the war-maybe
we ought to ask Santa for full
SlLC DulldAtlS bOOAi.
"Put on your old gray bonnet with
the red ribbons on it and We'll hitch
old Dobbin to the shay ;" you
know the rest. Well the modern ver-
sion of that is that Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Amstutz west of Bluffton
motored to Ashland, Ohio, over the
week end where they visited rela-
tives. The trip marked their Silver
wedding anniversary.
Pfc. Robert "Pewee" Young,
Bluffton veteran who went thru the
war without injury has recently
been hospitalized in Belgium as the
result of an accident when the jeer
in which he was riding together with
two other G. is collided with ar
army truck-the jeep came out sec.
ond best.
Thanks to a Bluffton News classi.
| fed advertisement and the honesty
of a Bluffton man, a wrist watch
has been returned to its owner. Rev
C. A. Ford, living northwest Of
Bluffton near the st. John Men