The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-11-24

modern muSketS and going aneId or
Thanksgiving to wind up the pleas
ant season overall, the pheasants
haven't been too cooperative this
year and quite a number of the boys
missed the thrill of getting their
limit-one solution offered was that
,, the good hunters couldn't see 'em
and the poor ones couldn't hit 'em
/. s. and here is winter sweeping
out the last vestages of lingering
mild fall weather-delightful it was,
too-but the thermometer was down
to 16 degrees Tuesday morning and
baby it was cold outside after that
long stretch of prolonged summer
weather bureau said this year we
had the second warmest October
since records were kept way back in
the 1870's -. winter recreation get
ting under way with the basketball
teams swinging into action and
Christmas shopping started with re-
tail shops featuring gift suggestions
and displays j. all of which is a
pointed reminder that it's time to
start that early Christmas shopping
we've been planning-fact is, one of
our New Years resolutions was to
do--Ga'.-t.r+as shopping early.
Add to remarkable condolences
that meeting of two former Bluffton
girls-cousins-who hadn't seen each
other in Is years and found them
selves seated together with a crowd
of $4,000 at Cleveland professional
football game recently.
The "girls'-most Button people
will remember them as Myrtle and
Faery Berry-together with their
husbands, by one of those strange
vagaries of chance met while at
tending championship game be-
tween the Cleveland Browns and the
Forty-niners.
Myrtle, sister of Gerald Berry
and Mrs. James Benroth, lives in
Cleveland where her husband Lester
Yoder, Bluffton college graduate, is
a statistician for the American Tel
ephone & Telegraph company.
Faery, sister of Dallas Berry, lives
in Columbus. Her husband, Dwight
Musselman is headmaster at the CO.
lumbus Boys Choir school. Dwight
is also Bluffton college alumnus.
His father the late Rev. S. M. Mus
selman was for many years pastor
of the First Mennonite church here.
Whether this is a remarkable CO.
incidence-or a prize entry for the
most embarrassing moments contest
depends on how you look at it-any-
way it has emerged as the most
talked-of incident of the past weeks
hunting. season.
Principal actor in this little drama
lIOln dCludA ll1S 10 Lllid huAeSA
driving home in his car after a day
afeld near Rawson. Sighting
pheasant along the highway our
lynx-eyed nimrod stopped his car
and with one pot shot bagged the
bird.
Not until he leaped from his car
to retrieve the game did he notice a
second automobile had parked be-
hind him and-mirabile dictu-on
the door was the familiar golden
emblem, the winged wheel of the
state highway patrol.
1t was indeed most distressingly
embarrassing situation for our hero.
The last and final act shows the
hunter, who already had bagged his
limit, paying fine of $45 and costs.
Burma's been a naughty girl-and
deserves a spanking--but who's gon-
ma do it-as Shakespeare once said
ineTS the IGs. bu1ild 10 1iidl
little girl elephant of 1000 pounds
whose playful antics and clowning
amused youngsters when Mills Broth
ers circus showed here a couple of
years ago on Schmidt's field.
Well, Burma is still up to tricks
and doesn't seem to act her age.
Her latest exploit happened last Fri
day night at the winter quarters of
the circus at the Pickaway county
fairgrounds near Circleville when
she broke loose from her moorings
and gorged herself on an early
Thanksgiving dinner.
In the darkness she tiptoed past
her sleeping handler, Mark Roe,
then past 80 other sleeping circus
hands and straight to the cookhouse
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