The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-06-20

SHELVES IO IlCCl dil QCIldlluS.
Buttons elevated water tank at
the municipal electric light and
waterworks plant which provides
pressure for the towns water system
looks spick and span in its new coat
of paint. Also 1000 YIELDS in the
big tank have taken care of minute
holes and seepage, work being done
by the H. Greenlee company of
Cherry Valley, III.
First contribution in the campaign
to raise $4,000 for Harmon field
came unsolicited from Bluffton
mother who said that her sons, all
now grown, had been benefited by
the field and she wanted to see
other children have a similar OPP
portunity. The Bluffton woman, Mrs.
Eva Kohl, heads the list of donors
with contribution of S5.
You've heard that old couplet
about woman's work is never dome
well that applies to telephone trouble
shooters also, as Morice Mahoney,
manager of the Bluffton telephone
system will tell you. Mahoney who
was busy all last week repairing
lines and phones damaged by a
previous storm week ago worked
all day last Sunday just to get
everything shipshape-and then
came Sunday nights storm and
there was more than ever to do all
over again.
Bluffton people who are out on
the great adventure of home build
ing this summer say that dimension
al material, including by AS,
studding and siding are not too diff
ficult to obtain-but finishing lum-
Der, together with windows, doors,
sills and flooring is altogether an
other story and if you get it, you're
just plain lucky.
Two former Bluffton boys, Dean
and Kirk Ferguson, aged 16 and IL
respectively, arrived here Sunday
after making an overland trip by
train from California to spend the
summer with their grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Rauenbuhler.
Their school closed for the summer
last Friday and they left that night
making the trip to Chicago in an
air conditioned train, without unto
ward incident. The youths are sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ferguson of
Riverside, Calf, former Bluffton
residents.
The Joy Hubers, formerly rural
residents near Bluffton are in a
metropolitan district now, living in
Hackensack, New Jersey, across the
river from New York city. They
are located out four miles on the
boulevard leading to the George
Washington bridge and on clear days
the Empire State building, New
York city's tallest, is visible from
their back porch. Joy, former
school teacher here is connected with
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft as
eastern representative for the direct
or of purchases covering eleven east
earn states and coming as far west
as Buffalo each week.
Underground gurgling noises COM
ing from an abandoned water we'll
at the rear of Marshall Lee Coon's
residence on South Jackson street
attracted a crowd of curious specta-
tors, Monday night.
First noticed by the Coon family
about 6 o'clock, the noises were
plainly audible from nearby High
street at the side of the residence.
Prof. H. w. Berky, head of Bluff
ton college chemistry department
who investigated the phenomenon
said it was caused by carbon dioxide
gas bubbling thru the water some
80 feet below.
The gas, apparently from an
underground pocket under pressure
sought escape thru the well, he said.
Possible causes of pressure were
given as flood waters resulting from
Sunday nights storm or blasting
operations. Disturbance caused by
the gas had largely subsided by
Tuesday morning.
Prof. Berky said this was not un-
usual in southwestern Ohio and
other regions where caves are found
but it was the first instance he had
ever encountered in this section.