The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-01-30
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wait until next Sunday when he's due
to poke his nose out of winter quar-
ters and forecast weather for the
next six weeks 5. anyway it looked
like spring the first of the week after
the sharp cold snap when the tenn
perature barely missed zero -. and
warmer weather gave the go-sign
for resuming work on new houses and
the big addition to the Central 0hio's
electric generating plant here
also with two new subdivisions added
which means more building lots,
looks as if we are in for a busy sum-
mer if building materials can be had
+. which is one of the tangles the
state lumbermen's convention is try
ing to straighten out at its conven-
tion in Columbus this week-Forrest
Steinman's there looks as tho
all roads lead to Columbus this week
for conventioneers as Bluffton minis
ters are also there attending the Ohio
H.
politicos on a man-hunt to fill the
tickets by next Wednesdays dead
line . Mayor Howe and Clerk Gel
ger announcing they do not choose
to run $. time was when there were
a half-dozen aspirants for every of
flee now with candidates more
gun-shy than ever since the upset
at the last municipal election, the
question is "Who killed cock-robin 2"
or how did we get this way? i. re-
member the San FeIice cigar sign
painted on the side of the Elk res
taurant building-it's another old
Bluffton landmark which disappeared
Monday when the brick sidewall was
painted and B. F. Biery of the
Bluffton News, whose 93rd birthday
was last Thursday expresses thanks
and appreciation for the many re-
membrance cards and greetings re-
ceived.
Wilhelm Amstutz who is with the
internal revenue unit in this section
recently located two great grandsons
of Hezekiah Hubbel, the only Revo-
lutionary soldier buried in this vicin-
ity. His grave is on the Paul An
drews farm near the Gratz crossing
south of Bluffton. The grave is kept
in good condition by veterans organ
izations of Bluffton and Lima. The
two descendants Of the Revolutionary
hero live near Ada but have little
detailed information regarding their
Farmers dialing in on the radio re-
port of the Chicago livestock market
encountered an unusual situation
Monday-$25 was the top price for
both hogs and cattle. For the city
folks who don't understand livestock
prices, that was the market quota
tion for one hundred pounds of live
hogs or live cattle. Dealers said the
price relationship was unusual as it
is normal for cattle to sell at higher
prices than hogs.
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And speaking of farms and farm
ing, visiting here are Waldo Luigi
bill and his wife from North Dakota
where they go at wheat raising in
big way. In fact farming is the main
business out that way and every
thing is designed to contribute to the
farm enterprise. For example their
trading center, Hope, town of a.
bout 500 has elevator capacity for
more than 100000 bushels of wheat.
Waldo operates farm of 320 acres
himself, which he says is not unusual,
as many farms of double that size
are run as a one-man proposition.
All work is done by mechanical po-
wer and few farms have horses.
Fields are not fenced off and there
is little time lost in seeding wheat as
huge grain drills run in a straight
line for half mile before turning
around.
Word from the Memo Schumach-
ers who are touring the west. They
recently visited in Phoenix, Arizona,
with his brother Samuel and family
and called on the OILERS, julie Ben
roths, Henry Eisenbachs, John We'll
tys and J. C. Weltys, all former
Bluffton area folks. They are now
visiting Grand Canyon and Boulder
dam enroute to Limota, Calf, to see
the D. C. Shanks and from there will
leave for Salem, Oregon.
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r. Suzie's back-and the high school
basketball boys welcomed her with
open arms as their pinup girl-and
Susie in person is travelling around
with the team-fact is she was the
center of attraction at the Bellefon-
taine game Friday night and again
at Wapakoneta, Tuesday night.
Susie, as you probably know, is the
glamour girl atop the Western Buck
eye leagues bronze basketball tro-
ply. The Pirates captured it from
st. Marys two weeks ago for the
first time since 1941, and are entitled
to keep until they are defeated by an
other league team. Since Wapak was
the last threat on the Pirates league