The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-08-12
Mat|s%
Del4oNdI

4 d
Mid-August will h homegrown |
roasting ears and tomatoes at hand |
and muskmelons in the offing-
it's been a good year even for |
amateur gardeners, like your writer
no burning drought or disastrous
floods and the fairish amount of |
rainfall at we'll spaced intervals is |
what has probably kept Riley creek |
and Bluffton's sewage problem from
the perennial summer airing /
and cool nights bring foretaste of |
autumn-fact is the thermometer |
dropped to a fiat so degrees last |
Friday morning for a record cool |
spell-and they're getting everything |
set for a big ~night football preview
at Harmon field September 10 to |
ring up the curtain on Buttons grid |
season which reminds us that |
coach Dick RED" Lowry, erstwhile |
Findlay mentor is due here next |
week to take over Kent Cotterman's |
athletic program at the high school
all of which means that it's less than
a month before school opens-but the
bell in the grade school will be miss
ing for the first time in seventy
two years which is farther back
than most of us can remember i
Just goes to show how times change
we can remember not too many
years ago when Bluffton had half
dozen whistles sounding at noon
there were the planning mill, flour
mill, stone quarry, waterworks, just
to mention those which come to
mind-and then there was the morn
ing o'clock whistle-at first it
blew at 4:30-but they're all gone
now . and here it is three years
since Bluffton made whoopee at the
end of the war and who would
have thought then that we still
would be waiting for all this promis-
ed postwar housing-and that goes
for new cars, too-and a lot of
other scarce lines however
there wasn't any scarcity of bargains
al Bluffton's two big dollar days
Friday and Saturday-and the big
crowds of shoppers took full advant-
age of the opportunity.
|
When planning a fishing trip in
Michigan, better take along plenty
of nightcrawlers-if you have more
than you need there's a ready
market for your surplus.
The Howard Edingers just return
ed from a two weeks fishing jaunt
near Interlochen report a big de-
mand for worms at 35c a DOZEN
more than double the going rate of
15c here. Worms are said to be
none too plentiful in Michigan's
sandy soil and fishermen are ready
to take all of the available supply at
imitation prices.
Besides fishing a number of in
land lakes the Bluffton party also
threw a hook and line in Lake
Michigan. Edinger's catch included
s large bass, 5 of which measured
more than 2 feet in length, also a
2-foot pike. His son Bob hooked 5
catfish averaging two pounds.
Summer travelogues-
Two Bluffton cousins, Barbara
Jean Triplett and Eleanor Linden on
a motor trip to California seeing
sights enroute and stopping in Den
yer to pick another cousin, Lois Rich
of Washington, H., who has been
summering in Colorado. They'll return
the last of the month in time for
Barbara Jean to take up her duties
as music instructor in the Gallon
schools, Eleanor to return to Wooster
college and Lois to Bluffton college.
And the Edgar Chamberlains home
from two months motor trip thru
the west E. and the Arthur Amstutzs
back from an outing at Atlantic city
they drove west earlier in the sum-
mer . and the Wilford Steiners
leaving Saturday on an extended trip
thru the New England states and on
into Canada to Quebec and, Nova
Scotia e.. and the DR.. Gordon BixeIs
also vacationing in Canada.
And Theresa Slusser of the high
school faculty, Sylvia Biederman hos
pital superintendent and Clara Schu-
macher of the Meter works are leav-
| ing early Sunday morning on a motor
trip to New York and thru the New
England states and Adirondacks.
Addison Myers and Theodore Bau-
man, Bluffton high school seniors
saw the midwest the hitchhike way,
going to Newton, Kansas where they
attended the Mennonite World con-
| ference the first of the week.
| And the Howard Stauffers home
from weeks vacation motoring thru
the Smokes 8. and Theodore Kohl
| and Roger Bell seeing sights in West
Virginia via bus and Supt. of
Schools Lanham and family on
two weeks trip visiting relatives in
Virginia and Ohio.