The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-05

If they're lucky.
It's probably the irony of fate that
they overlooked taking the diamonds,
watches and other jewelry out of the
| show window at Leiber's jewelry
store Monday night-the first time
IN months that they didn't. And Of
course that was the very night when
the plate glass window was broken
by thieves and the valuables extrac-
ted. And burglary insurance which
the store carried unfortunately had
been allowed to lapse.
A sample of Smooth Bronze grass,
a variety comparatively new in this
area is exhibited in the News win
dow. 1t is grown by Albert Geiger
of Cherry street who also brought in
some timothy for comparison. Geiger
says the bronze is superior to timothy
for livestock feeding purposes, altho
it is more difficult to get stand of
it.
Remember during the war when
grocers had their troubles supplying
butter +. and then there were also
bacon and nylons, not to mention a
half-dozen other hard to get items,
we'll the automobile dealers are hav-
ing the same headaches nowadays.
Maybe it's not correct to say they are
the same headaches, because the auto
men say theirs is a lot worse. And
they'll tell you that their waiting
lists of folks who want cars are long
er now than they were just after the
war. One dealer confided to us the
other day that it would take him five
years at the present rate of car de-
liveries to fill the orders on his pres
ent list.
And speaking of headaches, this
spring isn't helping the circus busi-
ness as the Belmar outfit which
showed here last Thursday night will
tell you. 1t was a good show, too,
that was down at Schmidt's field
but if you remember it was cold
fact is there was frost that night.
However, the circus people said
that bad weather has been the rule,
rather than the exception this year
chilly evenings together with rains
thru the middle west where they have
been travelling have resulted in small
crowds-and in addition to this costs
are higher than last year which
makes plenty of perplexities for the
management.
Mrs. Cora Huber, formerly south
Of Bluffton is one of the fifty year
subscribers to the Bluffton News
fact is, they have read the News for
So years and besides it has been IN
the Eli Huber family ever since the
paper was founded in 1876 which is
72 years ago. Mrs. Huber now makes
her home with her son Joy and fam
lily at Hackensack, New Jersey, just
outside New York.
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In our mail Enos ]. Steiner of
Washington, Mich, says lilacs there
are not in full bloom and that they
are having cool, wet weather, like
Bluffton's . and j. c. Lehman of
Cleveland renewing his subscription
says the News is just too good to
miss; it's just like a letter from home
=. and Mrs. Gideon Locher in Lima
says "we all enjoy reading it."
I'VE are always glad to see some
one from home" writes w. L. Bad
ertscher, former Blufftonite now liv-
ing in San Francisco, in recounting
a pleasant visit ten days ago when
Chester Stauffer, Bluffton plumber,
on a western trip, stopped in to see
him. Chester, enroute home after
visiting his daughter, Mrs. Kathleen
Farmer at FalIbrook, Calf, stayed
over in San Francisco for a day.
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AS Mark Twain says, everybody
talks about the weather but no one
does anything about it--so it seems
that we just can't get off the subject
-altho there's nothing to be done a.
bout it. However, in last Thursday
mornings edition of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer appeared a front page
article featuring A. c. Ramseyer of
Smithville, Wayne county, one of
Ohio's largest potato growers. He is
Bluffton college trustee and father