The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-01-25
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change-it used to be the farmers
institute-now it's the community in
stitute for everybody-and you ar
not only invited but urged to attend
two days of rubbing elbows Will
your neighbors you might like
your neighbor better if you knew
him better-and this is good place
to get acquainted and speaking
of times changing-just a year agt
the fire department was called out tt
fight a grass fire and now we're dig
ging out of snowdrifts =. and there
was the regular Monday snow agar
there's been one every Monday fol
five weeks-in fact it's missed only
one Monday in the last seven weeks
everyone trying to figure out
what OPA will ration next, and
stocking there was a furry of
coffee buying last Friday when un-
| founded rumors were afloat-all of
which adds to the heaaches of the
food stores.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Althaus win
tering in Weslaco, Texas, recently
sent to Bluffton friends some fine
Texas fruit which they picked and
packed themselves. Willis, native
of Bluffton and for many years in
the printing business in Ashland is
in the south for the benefit of his
health and is much improved. Ir
contrast to Ohio blizzards of the past
six weeks, temperature in Weslacc
is usually above 10 degrees with
green grass and flowers in bloom.
Those japanese characters which
appeared on the Jap battle flag ex
hibited in the Bluffton News window
the past week by Cpl. Park Mathew
son of Ada, indicated that the soldiel
who carried it was in civilian lif,
an electrical engineer and inscrip
tions on the flag were good wishes
from his friends-about what Amer
leans would write in an autograph
book so we were informed by Cpl
Mathewson the other day. Cpl
Mathewson of the Marine corps bro
the flag back with him on his return
from the Pacific war area. The in
scription, he said, was translated b.
an interpreter, an American-borl
Japanese, attached to their unit. Cpl
Mathewson is a brother of Dan;
Mathewson of Riley street.
Elwood Flythe of Virginia is get
ting a first-hand glimpse of Obi
, snowdrifts this week while visiting
: his grandfather, ROLAND Flythe an
his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs
Oscar Wenger of Spring Estreel
Flythe is employed in the shipyard
at Newport News and this is his frs
experience in a northern winter.
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, When two Bluffton boys meet i
! some far off corner of the worlc
what do they talk about? Wei
we don't know except that not lon
ago when Donald Ruggley of th
Navy stationed at a port in Brazi
South America, met Morris Fett
who flies with an army transpor
plane, Donald sail what he wante
! most of all was a quart of fres
milk. And the next time Morri
made that particular trip he deliver
ed to his Bluffton buddy not on
but six quarts of milk-strictly fresh
packed in dry ice.
Word from Rev. Elmer Basingel
pastor of the Mennonite church a
Summerfield, ILL.,, and Bluffton resi-
dent some thirty years ago. His wife
also from Bluffton was the daughte
of the late Jacob Schumacher o
! South Lawn avenue. Their daughte
Lynette was married last October t
Edward Hirstein and lives at Col
conda, III. A son Carlus is studyin;
for a Masters degree in the Univer
sity of Chicago and another son, La
Verne is manager of the Social Sc
curity office at Quincy, I'll.
When will the war end? Well, Their
have been a lot of calculations an,
guesses-based on anything from tn
state of the weather to the phase
of the moon. However, we were in
terested in newspaper clipping pub
lished-four years ago-which b.
means of mathematical formula
from dates of the Franco Prussial
war and also the First World wa
predicts that the present conflict will
end April, 1916. Wonder if it Nigh
be right? Anyway it's interesting
to see how nearly correct a Ions
range prediction can be in forecast
ing events.
Not the least of the difficulties en-
countered by American doughboys in
England is that of handling English
money, writes Cpl. Robert Koontz
son of Mr.. and Mrs. 7. J. Koontz who
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