The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-12-31
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Happy New Year ;. and remem-
Der beginning Wednesday morning
to write it 1947--bet you'll forget
anyway everyone's a bit vague
at this time of the year :. maybe
it's flu--but more probably it's just
a letdown-or hangover s. and it
was a white Christmas-of sorts
yes, we know we stuck our neck out
on that one, but anyway there was
some snow and we'll give white
Christmas the benefit of the doubt
-. and if the snow was a bit grim
with SCOT, there was at least the
cheering thot that for the first time
since before the war we got all the
Lux we wanted-surprising where
all that washing powder came from
after all these months of waiting
almost made us feel like celebrating
New Years by scrubbing up around
the house !. and speaking of New
Years we're behind the eight-ball
again on New Years resolutions-to
resolve or not to resolve-that's the
question-whether tbs better to re-
solve and finally go down battling
against overwhelming odds or just
forget the whole thing and save
lot of headaches-well we haven't
decided :. 5. but one cynic wisecracked
the other day and suggested that
New Years resolutions should be
marked fragile" and then,
there's another idea that might be
helpful, if you're too busy to make
resolutions this year you could look
up those of last year and perhaps
there will be enough to be done in
carrying them out that it won't be
necessary to make any new ones =.
and so we bow out 1916 and wish
you lot of the best of everything
in the coming year.
Congratulations to Postmaster Ed
Reichenbach and his postoffice staff
who handled Bluffton's biggest vol
ume of holiday mail smoothly and eff
ficiently. 1t was job well done.
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With the holidays past comes the
beginning of annual January head
aches tax bills from the county
auditor will be in the mails shortly
!. and then there's dog license tags
to be bought before the goth or off
will go Rover to the dog pound
and it's none too early to begin prep
arations for that annual get-together
you will have with Uncle Sam on the
matter of income tax adjustment on
March Is.
Christmas trees resplendent with
all the colors of the rainbow are
nothing new to Bluffton people, es-
pecially since the end of the war per-
mitted return of gaily colored decor
ations-but to Anetta DeGraaf,
Dutch girl who is student in Bluff
ton college, it was a novel sight. In
Holland, she explained, all decora-
tions on the tree are white. However,
now, she says, she likes the Ameri-
can custom of vari-colored decora-
tions.
You've heard of Iowa, where the
tall corn grows-well, that goes also
for Nodaway county, in northwestern
Missouri adjoining Iowa. Frank Fen
ton, former Blufftonite of Clearmont,
Mo-, sends us newspaper clipping
stating that Harold Gray of Noda-
way county is the corn raising
champion of that district. He is listed
in a national contest as growing
1914 bushels of corn to the acre on
a five acre plot, which is lot of
corn, even for the corn belt. The corn
crop thruout that district is good,
Fenton says.
Nurses at the hospital here are
still chuckling over what happened
late the other night when a state
highway patrol car pulled up at the
curb and trooper briskly strode up
the steps into the hospital. Word of
what occurred spread to the down.
town district and rumors had it that
two bandits in a stolen car were in
volved in an accident and had been
taken to the hospital and the high
way patrol was here to make arrests.
Telephone calls to the hospital
brought non-committal answers-no,
there had been no accident cases