The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-11-28
flax raised on their home farm.

Don't get the idea that crochetine
is exclusively for women-there's
Laurel Bauman, Jr., 20 year ole
Bluffton college sophomore who is
doing a mighty fine job of crochet
ing fancy potholders while GONZALES
cling from an operation to correct
club feet which he underwent last
summer. It's the fourth operation
which he has had, and indications are
that his condition will be much inn
proved. He expects to be we'll re-
covered by the first of the year.
Meanwhile, he is taking part time
studies at the college and puts in his
spare time making potholders which
are in good demand for Christmas
| gifts!
And congratulations to the Peter
Geigers on their Goth wedding ami
| versary last Sunday. Quite number
of Bluffton couples married over fif-
ty years will be celebrating anniver-
saries within the next few weeks.
Among them are the C. d. Amstutzs,
the ID. c. Bixels and the B. F. Bierys.
The parking situation in Bluffton
is constantly increasing with larger
trading area and more cars coming
to town together with parking lots
gradually being converted into build
ing sites and other uses. Looks as if
the parking problem is becoming one
of the major questions which we will
have to tackle. One of the results of
this situation appears to be the ten
dency of business here to spread out
instead of concentrating in a limited
down town area. o. c. Hursey & Sons,
implement dealers who will move soon
to their new location on Vance street
where they recently purchased the
l.. L. Clymer garage and the Farm
Bureau which has purchased a site
on the Philip Hilty farm south of
Bluffton to erect an elevator and
other buildings have had foresight to
acquire sufficient land that parking
should present no problem. However,
for the great majority of local busi-
ness concerns action on providing con-
venient, accessible and we'll lighted
parking space is something that can
not be handled individually.
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Conditions in Bluffton high school
where there is not sufficient interest
in modern languages to make it
practical to offer such studies, ap-
parently are duplicated thruout the
country. Recently there appeared
press dispatches from Army head
quarters in Europe complaining that
lack of officers with a speaking
knowledge of foreign languages was
tremendously complicating the task
of the occupation forces. While we
neglect the study of foreign languag
es, English is being intensively stud
led in every other country, especially
Russia. Results of this situation may
be apparent in event of future con-
flicts. Present condition in the high
school here is reversal of the situ-
alton some fifteen years ago when
classes in three foreign languages,
French, German and Spanish had good
sized enrollments.
He's a resourceful farmer-we're
talking about Ray Peterson over in
Union township on one of the farms
of the late Homer Green. He attrac-
ted attention of the neighbors the
other day when instead of using a
picker in a field of stunted corn he
substituted a combine. Some of the
boys said it sounded like a string of
army trucks going at full tilt down
the Dixie.
Comes word from w. II. Herr of
Denair, Calf, former Bluffton resi-
dent who will soon become one of the
50-year Bluffton News readers. He
has lived in California for Al years
where he operates a profitable Eng
lish walnut grove. Part of the crop
which has just been picked came
from trees which grew from nuts he
planted forty years ago. Crops in
that region were good this year, he
writes and prices were satisfactory