The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-12-30


breathing spell Fact is, the volume
of mail swung from an all time high
almost to the vanishing point. On
December 20, that was Monday of
last week, letter mail cancellations
of 1851 established a one days
record at the post office here, while
on Christmas Day, when the win
dows were closed but mails were dis
patched as usual, only DC letters
were sent out.
And speaking of Christmas, that
cold snap over the week end was
vastly different than the weather 81
years ago when the Horace STRAIT
tons moved into a newly finished log
cabin on the farm where they since
resided south of Bluffton. Mr..
Stratton said the weather was warm
and doors and windows were open
roads we're dusty and the entire pic
ture was one of beautiful spring
weather. incidentally he says the
Bluffton News has been in their
home now going on the 58th year.
What to do with the tree after
Christmas is over-the governments
Fish and Wildlife service suggests
that it be set up in the back yard
as a bird feeder.
"String popcorn on the tree and
hang chunks of suet where the
birds can perch. Scatter stale bread,
apples, grains and seeds around the
base. Set food out frequently, but
in small quantities." the agency
says.
The past year has seen three men
removed by death who contributed
much of time and money to Bluffton
college. Two of them, DR.. M. K.
Bixel, Bluffton physician and A. c.
Ramseyer, large scale potato grower
served on the board of trustees and
DR.. c. Henry Smith former faculty
member and ex-secretary of the col
lege.
Speaking of scrambles, there's
been wild one going on at Pasa-
dena, California, for Rose Bowl
tickets for the New Years day foot
ball game, according to newspaper
clippings received from Mrs. E. H.
Neuenschwander, former Bluffton-
ite, now of Compton, Calf.
For your information, $4,000 tick
cts will be sold for the game-but
here's the catch-86,000 of them
have gone to students, alumni and
friends of the opposing universities
California and Northwestern. If
you are good at arithmetic you'll
find that leaves only a mere 5000
tickets for the general public-at
$3.50 each.
The 5000 tickets went on sale
last Wednesday with limit of two
to a person. More than 1000 per-
sons were in line at the window
when ticket sales opened. Some had
been waiting for two days to get
their pair and came equipped with
sleeping bags, others had small tents
and still others had portable stoves
and cooking utensils.
Last year, it is recalled, public
sale of Rose Bowl tickets was ex-
hausted long before the expected
total was reached. The result was
riot among fans and subsequent
court suits.
This year an auditing firm was
employed to count and check totals
for the 5000 tickets offered to the
public.
You've heard about Iowa, there
the tall corn grows-but don't over
look Missouri where they hang up
records for bumper yields. So says
Frank Fenton, former Blutftonite,
now living in Clearmont, Mo. In
more than fifty years in which he
has lived in Missouri, there has
never been a complete crop failure,
he says, and yields this fall were
particularly good. The top mark
was scored by Harold Gray, Noda-
way county farmer who raised 171.68
bushels of corn per acre. Other out
standing yields ranged from $50 to
131 bushels per acre.