The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-04

Herr. Herr was a pioneer harness
maker and implement dealer doing
a large business here some 90 years
ago. He built the block now occupied
by the Basinger furniture store and
the Drs. Basinger dental offices.
Bluffton travellers returning the
past week with tales of far-away
places. There are the Ed Lapes
VINO spent the past five weeks in
the south and flew to Porto Rico
five hours from Miami by plane
they were fortunate to be on the
island at the time of the full moon
which they say is bigger, better and
brighter than anything ever seen in
northern latitudes and the Fred
Gettleses just back from California
who got an unforgettable thrill at
the sight of imposing Mt. Shasta,
spending several weeks in that region
with their daughter Zitella and SON.
in-law 1t. James Griffith at Oroville,
also viewing the Mt. Shasta dam
now under construction which will
supply cheap electricity for a radius
of hundreds of miles and the
Clayton Bixels who sojourned in
Mexico City and saw real Mexican
bullfight-just to prove it, Clayton
took moving pictures of the event
with his camera and now is getting
ready to show the film to his friends
some of these evenings and
the Ross Bogarts back from
winter in Florida, say that during
the height of the tourist season the
housing situation was so, bad that
Miami householders turned their
homes into dormitories and sold
overnight sleeping space in their
living rooms with no ceiling price.
Fact is, the only ceiling these
Miamians knew was the ceiling of
the room.
Army "K" rations exhibited in the
News window by Carold Welty who
subsisted for 10 days on a planned
menu of which K rations were
large part. Welty was one of
group of II Civilian Public Service
men who volunteered to serve as
guinea pigs for an Army experiment
to determine the type of rations to
be supplied on life RATS of fiiers
whose planes had been forced down
over the ocean. The experiments
were conducted at the Metropolitan
hospital in New York city and the
Army's life raft ration was an out
growth of this project.
The K ration includes a tin of
chopped ham and egg, tin of pine
apple rice pudding, small crackers,
A nabiscoes, bar of sweet chocolate,
stick chewing gum, small box granu-
lated sugar and package of synthetic
orange juice powder to which water
and sugar must be added. 1t is
enclosed in a heavily pariffined
waterproof bag and encased in
small cardboard container which
could easily be slipped into the
pocket.
Lloyd Murray is exhibiting one of
the new Roosevelt dimes, believed
to be the first seen here with ex-
ception of some received by coin
collectors. 1t was sent by his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ruth Hess who with her
husband are now in Washington.
This column acknowledges with
thanks a response received in reply
to a request which we made recently
for someone to translate a letter
written in Holland Dutch. You may
recall reading of a letter which
Dorothy Greding of the Greding
hardware received from Holland
when a recipient found her name in
coat which she donated for
European relief.
The response came from Mrs. Z.
II. Neuenschwander of Huntington
Park, Calf, a former Bluffton
resident, who referred us to a
friend, Mrs. Ernest Frens of Muske-
gon Heights, Mich. Mrs. Frens, a
former neighbor of the Neuensch-
wanders when they lived in Saginaw,
Mich, is native of Amsterdam.
She has sister who lived at the
Hague thruout the war and another
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