The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-01-01

| Resolved to live a clean, sober,
honest and unselfish life.
Resolved not to worry, fret, fume
or be over-anxious.
/ Resolved to make myself happy by
helping others to be happy.
Resolved to observe regular hours
for work, rest, meals, recreation and
sleep.
Resolved to make the most of my
opportunities instead of making the
most of my obstacles.
This may be a season of goodwill
and all that, but there is reported a
wave of petty pilfering thruout town
among items missing are two pick
axes and scoop shovels from the
town truck and there have been
q surprising number of billfolds lost
most of them by women apparent
ly mislaid during the rush of the hol-
iday season.
Those familiar with such things
predict that the next fortnight will
see a marked increase in the volume
of grain and livestock marketed by
| farmers who have been waiting until
after the first of the year to sell in
order to cut down the amount of
their 1947 income taxes.
Remember Joyce Irene, little
daughter of the Cliff Elliotts former
ly of Kibler street who for the past
two years was featured in the New
Years edition of the Toledo Blade
as the baby new year? Well, she is
nearly three years old now and liv-
ing in Los Angeles, the family hav-
ing moved there several months ago.
Her photo, however, appeared on
Christmas greeting cards sent by the
Elliotts-also pictures of Roger and
Lois together with the parents Vera
and Clifford.
$3.50
And speaking of California, the
thermometer went to maximum Of
81 degrees in Los Angeles on Christ
mas day, according to a newspaper
clipping received the first of the
week by Chester Stauffer from his
daughter, Mrs. K. H. Dickerson of
Torrance, Calf. 1t was the hottest
Christmas day since 1914, weather
bureau records disclosed. Beaches
were crowded and extra lifeguards
were on duty. A maximum of sc de-
grees was reported from Long Beach.
Also it's summer weather in Flori-
da, according to word from the Will
lis AIthauses, former Blufftonites
who are wintering in their house
trailer at Palmetto, near Bradenton.
$3.50
However, it's different in Hope,
North Dakota, where Waldo Lugibill
operates one of those big western
grain farms. Waldo, formerly of
Bluffton and son of Albert Lugibill
says that 2-foot snowfall which made
a record in New York city is nothing
unusual in North Dakota where they
have had "a inches Of snow for al
most a month. Out in Hope everyone
dresses for comfort-not looks-and
the natives take heavy SHOWS right
in their stride.
Working on the railroad section
just comes naturally for the father
and two sons in the Jacob Nusbaum
family east of town. The father has
been employed on the A. c. & Y. for
the past five years while his sons
Melvin who served in the army and
Francis recently out of high school
are with a crew on the Nickel Plate.
Surprised-that's the only word to
describe twas Mrs. Florence Spit
Ter of near McComb when she arrived
home from a shopping trip the day
before Christmas and found a new
farm wagon in her living room. Mrs.
Splitter had ordered the wagon-a
rubber tire job-as a gift for her hus-
band on condition that it be deliver
ed before Christmas, so the obliging
dealer put it just where old Santa
himself would have left fright near
the chimneyplace instead of in the
barnyard. Only hitch in the arrange
ment was the fact that the wagon
had to be disassembled before it
could be gotten out of the house.
C,,brrr;ha tn the Bluffton News,