The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-10-21
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w hEAl tile 44o5t ID VII tic pump
kin, and the folders in the shock
well, there was plenty of
frost on the pumpkin Monday morn
ing after that first cold snap when
the thermometer dropped to % de-
grees, a record for a good many
years-ice on bird baths and window
panes hurried scramble to get
coats and sweaters out of mothballs
. and auto starters grinding
futilely without even so much as
cough from sluggish motors as i'm
patient workers tried to get going
however that frost, belated this
year, wasn't the entirely unwelcome
intruder it usually is--mothers greet
ed frost with a sigh of relief, realiz-
ing that for some reason yet un-
known, it spells the end Of polio
which reached epidemic proportions
this year-and farm experts say that
with crops all matured,, frost will
help to dry out ear corn . and
frost enhanced the brilliant color of
autumn leaves as nature puts on her
annual far-fung pageant, appro-
priately enough ushered in Sunday
night by a spectacular display of the
aurora borealis-northern lights
truly an extravaganza far eclipsing
anything Hollywood ever dreamed of
and the full moon Friday night
vying with the bright lights of Har-
mon field to provide an ideal setting
for crowning of the queen at the
high school homecoming football
game.
Open rebellion fared on the Bluff
ton college campus this week as
freshmen refused pointblank to con-
tinue wearing their green caps and
sophomores insisting that tradition be
followed and the frosh do the wear
in o. the green until Thanksgiving.
Student council at the college en-
deavoring to patch up a compromise
agreement between the warning fac
tions.
You've heard of fsherman's luck
well, three Jenera men can give you
details. Marvin Schaller, Raymond
Rupright and Gene Beach, deft
anglers all, spent a pleasant week
end at Ed Bosses cottage near Jack
son, Mich,-that is everything was
pleasant except the fishing they
snagged only one lone fish.
The item appearing in these notes
last week about Dean Jaeger, Holly
wood film luminary and native Of
Rockport brought forth an interest
ing sidelight. The Rockport Presby-
terian Sunday school lists on its
cradle roll, November 7, 1908, the
name of Ira Dean Jaeger, aged 9
months.
Mrs. Roscoe Blakesley, an invalid
and patient at Bluffton hospital for
more than two years conducts a
thriving business selling Christmas
cards and stationery. The line is at
tractively displayed on a small table
at her bedside. Items are moving
well, she reports and her cheerful
disposition and bright sense of hu,
NOR, adds much to her business ven,
ture.
This column recently commented
about the fact that small town boys
frequently are prominent in big cit
ies-this week it's the fact that some
of the "new" ideas of big cities are
old stuff to small towns. We refer
to a clipping from the New Yorl
Daily News, sent US by Joy Huber
former Blufftonite, now living il
Hackensack, N. J.
According to the clipping the pas
tor of a New York city Presbyterian
church on Sunday of last weel
amazed worshippers by handing
each a $5 bill, following a sermon ol
the parable of the talents and aske'
each churchgoer to bring back b,
Palm Sunday, six months away
whatever the $5 can earn" TIL
church, according to the newspape
account hopes to raise some $500
for youth house.
The modern application of the tai
ents was inaugurated in the Bluffto
Presbyterian church more than
year and half ago and since ha
been widely copied.
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