The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-15
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March-the month that is supposed
to come in like lamb and go out like
lion isn't doing too badly or per-
haps we were so used to snowdrifts
and sleet storms that anything else
looks good s. anyway it's getting
near housekeeping time :. and some
harry souls have planted their early
garden and here's st. Patrick's
day coming Saturday-that's the day
the oldtimers will tell you is the time
to plant sweet peas. and it's also
| the 93rd birthday of Mrs. J. w. Ba-
singer, and of her son DR.. Evan Ba-
singer, Bluffton dentist . and fresh
strawberries from the south on the
Bluffton market and speaking of
the south, the Ross Bogarts are en-
route home after couple of months
in Florida :. and Easter bunnies and
egg dyes in the shop windows /. and
going into our jeans for the where
withal to buy another auto tag adds
another somber note to the Lenten
season and Thursday is the dead
line for mailing income tax reports
and the boys are filing them with their
fingers crossed, hoping everything is
o. K. :. and interest in fishing pick
ing up with the coming of warmer
weather-and from the size of our
dwindling coal pile, warm weather
can't come any too soon.
If you're expecting to live in San
Francisco, it might be wise precau-
ton to make the trip in a trailer and
plan to live in it after you arrive.
Just how serious is the housing short
age there was learned by Maynard
Mann, former Bluffton resident and
son of Mrs. Edith Mann, who recently
was named manager of the San Fran
cisco branch of printing machinery
concern. Mann, who has been living
in Cleveland had expected to move his
family to California but abandoned
the plan for the present, at least after
he and his wife on a preliminary trip
to San Francisco were unable to find
housing accommodations.
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And speaking of California, comes
word from Mrs. Florence Highland
Murphy of haywood, a Los Angeles
suburb who says their rainy and cold
season has begun. 1t hailed at Long
Beach on March 2, she writes: The
rain, however, was much needed, she
says. Mrs. Murphy is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Highland, who
lived here some thirty years ago on
South Lawn avenue in the property
now occupied by Amiel Amstutz.
Mrs. Murphy is cousin of Kermit
Kibele and her father who was en-
ployed in the oil field here lives with
her and is in his eighties.
$50
You've heard of Lady Luck smiling
well, she did more than that in
Bluffton last Saturday-she laughed
out loud. Here's what happened: Ed
gar Flock, Nickel Plate section man
who rooms at Oscar Lora's on South
Main street lost his billfold in the af-
ternoon containing $3.50, presumably
in the downtown business district. A
search failed to reveal the missing
money, but when Flock changed
clothes later in the afternoon he dis
covered the billfold cozily resting in
his overshoe. How the billfold got
there wasn't SO much of a mystery
when Flock explained that he was
wearing two pairs of overalls and for
safety's sake intended to put the mon
ey in the hip pocket of the inner pair.
Apparently he missed the pocket and
the billfold slid down his pants leg,
unnoticed, and dropped into the over
shoe.
Apparently there has been some
confusion among Bluffton motorists as
to where auto tags are being sold.
This year they are issued at the News
stand operated by Harold Montgom-
ery-not at the News office.
If you have a shortwave radio set,