The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-03-28
THE BLuFFToN NEWS, BLUFFToN, ONO

ed stone top dressing after last win
ter's havoc >. there's George Car
mack's new threatre building with
walls up to the second fioor-but not
much stirring as yet in new resi-
dence construction -. apricot trees
in full bloom and few more days
of this spring weather will see the
early cherry trees in blossom :. s. all
of which may not augur too well for
a bumper fruit crop with heavy frosts
the rule of April ;. but perhaps it
doesn't make too much difference, the
way everyone jumped the gun to
cash that canning sugar stamp,
therell be little of that sugar left by
time canning season rolls around
speaking of sugar, believe it or not,
grocers will tell you that sugar, ra-
toned, is in sufficiently ample sup
ply to cash all stamps being present
ed, while laundry soap and washing
powder, not rationed, are definitely
on the scarcity list. =. congratula-
tions to the David Rissers who cele-
brated their 18th wedding anniver-
sary Saturday which Dave announced
with flourish to the lunch counter
regulars !. and Sunday is the last
day to joyride on the 1945 tags :.
so exits March 1916.
And speaking of joyriding-you
don't have to pay for those new 1916
road maps which the state highway
is issuing this spring. Some folks
who sent in nickels and dimes, to-
gether with 3-cent stamps to cover
postage are getting their money back.
The maps are free.
And another sure sign of spring
snakes sighted in Orange township.
Elmer Anderson reports having killed
blue racer measuring five and one
half feet in the Cal Ewing woods
last Wednesday. 1t was in the early
| morning and the snake was too slug
gish to flee.
Strangers coming into Bluffton
are frequently confused because
streets are not laid out east and
west, or north and south Fact is,
according to Street Commissioner Lee
Coon, Bluffton has only one thoro-
fare-Huber street, running due
north and south. You know, perhaps,
that this street runs from Jeffer-
son to Cherry street. There are
no streets running due east and west.
Reason for this is that Main street
follows the Lima Findlay road which
originally was an Indian trail running
northeast and southwest thru Bluff
ton. The trail followed the high
ground, with no consideration for the
niceties of points of the compass as
the redmen picked the most advan-
tageous natural travel route from
Lake Erie to the Ohio river. The
town will have several streets run
ming north and south and east and
west when some thorofares shown on
the town plat are opened.
just in event you did not know it,
the Legion of Merit awarded by the
Army to Col. Rene Stndler, Bluffton
native and son of Mrs. Paul Studler
of South Jackson street, is the ma
tion's highest military award for nom
combat service. The more familiar
Congressional Medal is awarded for
combat action only. An article ap-
pearing in last weeks issue of the
Bluffton News told of the honor con-
ferred on Col. Studler who IS con-
nected with Army Ordnance depart
ment in Washington.
Safe drinking water-so common
that one scarcely gives it a thought
lis not at all common outside of
this country. Fact is, that Americas
almost universally safe drinking
water, everywhere available in virtu-
ally unlimited quantities is one of the
marvels of the. rest of the world.
Charley Lora, just returned from
Greece where he accompanied ship
load of cattle for relief says that
dirt and filth everywhere prevalent