The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-05-12
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Mld-MayLwith Buttons city-wide
cleanup campaign putting the ac-
cent on the usual spring cleaning
season-and it looks as if by the
time the windup of the drive comes
Thursday night the old town will
have had pretty good face-lifting
:. and it's a time of formals for
sweet girl graduates E. and youths
looking for summer jobs base
ball Tor sport fans and busy
days at Maple Grove cemetery an
ticipating Memorial day :. fisher
men at the Buckeye casting for
| those pickerel stocked there last
week s. and this is the week of
the Three Bad Boys, so says the
| old Swiss German tradition-May
IL to 14-when the weather is sup
posed to do all kinds of queer antics
in fact it did when last weeks
midsummer heat of SO degrees
dropped to the fifties Tuesday morn
| ing come to think about it, this
is the week when grandpappy used
to plant his corn-never knew any
better, benighted soul, until some
of the smart boys with book learnin'
| figured it out that he planted two
weeks too early-that's what they
thought-but somehow it didn't work
and they had their fingers burned a
couple of times by early frosts (if
frosts can burn) so now the trend
| is swinging back again toward earl
ier planting and here comes
| Friday the 13th--of all things-so
| keep your fingers crossed-anyway
this is the last time for this year
it doesn't happen again until next
January.
You've heard of the mail man who
| took long walk on his day off
we'll that's what Wilbur Potee, city
carried, did Sunday, and came back
with the news that prospects for
| pheasant hunting next fall are good.
Wilbur and his two granddaughters
| Karen and Darlene in cross coun-
try tramp out near Ray Marshall's S
in Orange township discovered hen
| pheasant sitting on a nest contain
ing 16 eggs-an unusually large
number, say sportsmen.
And speaking of birds-Mrs. Rus
sell Lantz found one roosting in her
| living room the other morning. She
was surprised-and so was the bird
and it wasn't small one either
she thought it was big crow until
her husband identified it as a mall
lard hen just as the duck flew across
the room and crashed headlong thru
window. Dazed by the crash but
apparently unharmed by shattered
glass the bird rested momentarily or
the window ledge and then took of
across nearby Riley creek for thu
wooded college campus. The ducl
| is believed to have gained entrance
by coming down the chimney into
the fireplace. Several have been seer
in the vicinity recently and some be-
lieve they may be of the flock OF
domesticated mallards which have
made their home at the waterworks
quarry.
To get a wedding present its
sometimes necessary to go after it
that's what the Maurice Fetts die
when they stopped on their honey,
moon to visit the Don Davises in
Miami, Florida, this week. The
Davises had wedding gift for the
Bluffton couple on condition that
they call for it in person. Son OF
Mrs. A. H. Davis and the late Mr.
Davis, former Blufftonites, Don and
his wife entertained Maurice fire.
quently while the latter was in Mi
ami between flights for the army air
service during the war.
A Bluffton idea has been trans
planted to Alameda, California,
where the First Presbyterian church
has embarked on a talent program
aiming to raise $4,000 for a new
organ and other improvements. Mrs