The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-12-08
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Christmas in the air-pre-holiday
activities getting into high gear :.
Santa Claus will be here at his
headquarters in the former Troy
Motor Sales room to greet his little
friends Saturday afternoon-how-
ever, unless there is some snow the
old fellow will have to travel by air
plane or some other way, unless he's
invented some new-fangled sleigh -.
fact is, there hasn't been much snow
before Christmas since that rough
and tough winter five years ago
when at this time roads were block
ed with snowdrifts however,
here comes the Messiah concert next
Sunday night which if all signs
hold good is a pretty sure indication
of winter weather :. and it's a bit
discouraging to see the number of
shopping days before Christmas con-
stantly getting less-and our Christ
mas shopping hasn't started :. and
here is December remember that
was Pearl Harbor day-and how the
world has changed in the past eight
years-we've come a long way since
that time and have learned many
things-not among the least of these
is the realization that it may be
easier to win a war then TO win
the peace.
And speaking of Christmas, there's
a queer quirk in the postal regula-
tions-under the new rates it will
cost you 2-cents postage to mail an
unsealed greeting card to your next
door neighbor-but it will cost only
11a cents to send the same unsealed
card to China, Africa, Iceland, or in
fact any place in the world except
the United States or its possessions.
Postal attaches commenting OH the
situation said it is comparatively
simple to change domestic postal
rates: however, to change interna-
tional postal schedules is an involved
and complicated process, which ex-
plains. why the old rate for foreign
postage remains unchanged.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Cherry, who
operate Skip's Nursery over mean
Rockport got the lowdown on the
lpresent European situation the Other
day from visitor, Harry Verdegaa
of Sassenheim, Holland, who stopped
here on his annual call taking ord
ers for tulip and other spring-fow
ering bulbs for shipment next fall
Verdegaal is an interesting visito1
and the Cherrys always anticipate
his visits with pleasure.
Aaron Geiger still plays the plan,
at the age of 81. His birthday wa
last Saturday and on Sunday h
played three hymns at the mornin,
service of the Ebenezer church. H
has always been interested in musi
and each year on the Sunday neares
his birthday is called upon to pla.
at the church service.
| Besides his music, he keeps activ
in the workshop at his home out ol
South Main street. Exhibited in th'
Blu 4A4tten News window is a minia
ture tractor and trailer which h,
turned out the other day. Mounted
on the trailer is big ten-inch ca,
of corn from the farm of his sol
Monroe Geiger of near Pandora.
| We've heard a lot about gettins
into a hornets nest-but we neve
really got into one until the othe,
day when Archie Hartman brought
in real for-sure nest, now in tn
Bluffton News window.
Archie found it in his woods il
Orange township in a beech ire,
about 20 feet off the ground. Th
lower part of the nest is missing
apparently having been shot ava,
by a hunter, giving a good view o
the interior-and most important
there are no hornets in it.
The nest is a marvel of ingeniou
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