The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-10
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| you know the rest and a lot of
other folks fancies turned to thoughts
of spring the first of the week when
the mercury went to top mark of
IS degrees all of which doesn't
mean that spring is here--which re-
minds us that Hoss Tradin' David
Harum once said the only thing GER
| tain about luck is that it is sure to
change-and that goes for h e
weather !. some cynics opined that
1--WE would pay for this later" but the
general attitude was to enjoy what is
here today and worry about tomorrow
when it comes. anyway it looked
| like springfield like spring and prov
ed an elixir to tagging spirits re-
covering from the post-holiday sea-
son letdown and this together
with new sugar stamp and end of
tire rationing popped up morale s. i.
all of which is not to say that tires
are plentiful-fact is that motorists
will find them as scarce as batteries
or butter--or bacon . and the David
! Walthers north of town who lost a
barn by fire Sunday morning was
Danny Walthers of muskmelon fame
which lot of his friends here will
regret and army and navy uni
forms plentiful as ex-service men
gather in restaurants and recreation
spots swapping yarns from the far
corners of the world.
Because of the present demand for
used farm machinery which far ex-
ceeds the supply, the practise widely
followed at public sales has been to
put in hat the names of all pros
pectivs purchasers willing to pay cell
ing price for a given piece of machin-
cry and then make the selection by
lot-having disinterested party
draw one name from the hat which
would determine the purchaser. How
ever, in order to increase his chances,
a prospective purchaser often had
friends not actually interested in buy
ing the equipment also put their
names into the hat with the under
standing of resale in event any of
them was lucky. However it doesn't
work that way in Iowa, says Alvin
Honken of the Triplett company, who
returned recently from a visit with
relatives in that state. There, every
farmer who puts his name into the
hat is assessed a contribution of So
for the Red Cross-which confines the
lottery pretty much to prospective
bona-fide purchasers.
Hancock county officials and Find
lay newspaper were busy the first of
the week trying to unscramble an
omlette of mistaken identity. Thru
an error in the sheriff's office the
name of Harold Montgomery, Bluffton
registrar of motor vehicles appeared
as booked on a charge of driving
while under influence of intoxicating
liquor and later pleaded guilty and
paid 500 fine. The error came to
| light when the item appeared in Mon
days edition of Findlay newspaper.
A checkup by Montgomery revealed
that the motorist arrested was We'll
don Luginbuhl and the arresting Off
GER mistakenly read the name from
the drivers license-but he read the
wrong name. Montgomery,s name ap-
peared there as the deputy registrar,
the official who had issued the license
and not the one whom the license was
issued.
On the first page of New York
city's current edition of the Sunday
News, a tabloid picture newspaper ap-
pears a large photo of Clark "Pop"
Bolster, 10, and his war-veteran son
Leonard, 30, who with the latter's 26-
year old wife Effie are driving COW
cred wagon from Leadville, Colorado
to Berne, New York. The covered
wagon drawn by two horses with two
more hitched on behind attracted
much attention when it went thru
Bluffton eastbound one Saturday af-
ternoon about month ago.
One of the few remaining oil-pro-
ducing areas in Ohio is in the vicinity
of Rising Sun in Wood county where
Calvin Schaeublin, former Bluffton
man is employed by an oil we'll sup
ply concern. He has been identified
with the oil business for the past "a
years, starting here in 1912 and To-
eating in Rising Sun two years later.
Schaeublin who visited here during
the holidays says that some wells in
that area have been pumped for so
years.
How it got here no one knows, but
an object shining in the grass which
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