The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-10

some of the best we've seen-and
also some fields around Pandora that
qualified for the knee-high rating -.
despite all the weeks of gloom thru
the spring, nature right now is do
ing her stuff in top fashion .
wheat fence high and turning to a
rich gold under the warm mid
summer sun oats-yes, there
are some e. and rye and
sleek herds grazing contentedly in
lush meadows and firefiies add
ing a touch of magic as dusk falls
nothing like a drive thru the country
to revive faith in the eternal good
ness of things and restore faith in
our destiny as a nation in the midst
of a world beset with turmoil and
confusion.
Weekend auto traffic was heavy
over the Dixie highway which fol-
lows Buffton's Main street thru
town-fact is, cars averaged one
every eight seconds last Sunday
afternoon when Chester Stauffer
counted the cars passing his home
on South Main street during two
half-hour periods-from 4:30 to 5
o'clock and from to $50. Strange
to relate the number clocked in each
of the half-hour periods was the
same-214--or an average of slight
ly better than per minute.
True Tales of Ohio, feature
appearing currently in the Bluffton
News has brought many favorable
comments from readers. 1t narrates
much of the everyday life of pioneers
which is often overlooked in the
more formal historical accounts.
Latest comment comes from s. F.
Steiner, of Scranton, Pa, son of E.
P, living east of Bluffton. He says
he enjoys this feature, also the
Conservation Notes devoted to out
door activities in Bluffton and vicin-
ity.
Walter Klay, former Blufftonite,
now living at Waynesboro, Pa, here
visiting relatives. Some of his old
friends took a second look and found
that something had been added
namely a mustache.
Walter explained that mustaches
and even full boards are all the
vogue in Waynesboro which is cur
rently celebrating its sesqui-centen-
nial-the city was founded $50 years
ago. Fact is, there are 600 men,
bers in the Whisker Club which in
cludes everything from gotees to full
red luxuriant boards.
You may have seen newspaper
photographs of 200 members of
Waynesboro's Whisker club which
went to Washington last month and
had a group picture taken on the
steps of the nations capitol.
And speaking of pictures there
appears in the current issue of Time
magazine a photo of Rev. Ernie"
Bigelow in connection with an ac-
count of the successful conclusion of
the Talent project of the Presbyter-
Jan church. .
A picture of classes in the schools
here taken fifty years ago which
hangs in the Bluffton News office
was an attraction for three sisters
from Flint, Mich, who stopped in
town for a short time Monday
afternoon to visit Myrtle Manages.
All three were in the picture. They
were the former Martin sisters,
daughters of the late w. H. Martin
employed at Kimmel's planning mill
on North Main street near Big Riley
creek bridge where the Hi-Speed
filing station now stands. The
"girls"-they're all grey-haired
women nowhere Mrs. Edward
Smedly, formerly Leila Martin; Mrs.
Susan Smith and Mrs. Sarah Roth.
One brother Lewis lives in Ft.
Wayne; another, Steven, a railroad
er, was killed a number of years
ago in an accident near Salt Lake
City, Utah.
II Won are sufficiently intnrastah