The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-10-27
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| big jamboree down on Harmon neld
next Monday will be the real thing
put on your most outlandish outfit
and ioin in the fun-leave your
purse at home-you can't spend any
money-everything is free it's
lust one big night when the young
'uns can have their fill of Halloween
| fun-and eats-and the oldsters will
be bit skittish, too one crepe
hanger ventured to suggest as to
what might happen if it rained but
he was promptly squelched by the
retort that it doesn't rain on Hal
loween night-come to think of 1t
we can't remember a rainy Hal
loween in recent years i. however,
this doesn't apply to the crowning
of homecoming queen-but that little
matter of rain didn't stop crowning
of the queen at the high school
Homecoming football game last Fri
| day night-and what's more Lowry's
lads brought home the bacon again
| right good going, boys re-
| member a month ago when the West
ern Buckeye league was supposed to
be too tough for Bluffton, only
Glass B school in the circuit :.
and then there's the college home
coming on Saturday and the football
game on Harmon feld-they say it'll
be fighting Beaver team you'll see
battling the Indiana boys from Tay-
lor U. chilly nights taking off
the edge of a prolonged summer
season-Amos Suter on Mound
street who does fine job of gard
ening had fresh peas the other day
and lots of red raspberries s. and
Sidney Stettler who raises southern
crops as novelty at his College
avenue garden left his cotton plants
out until the first of this week
which is a record of some kind or
other heard the other day of
roasting ears-and mighty good they
were, too, from corn planted on the
Fourth of July . +. and with all
the pageantry and fanfare out of
the way and October waning, therell
be the more serious business of cleo
tion less than two weeks off-there
will be five tickets-better begin
now to check up on your choice of
candidates and issues.
Bluffton people visiting the new
Sohio "cat cracker" oil refinery at
Lima will see two familiar faces in
the operating personnel. Richard
Ludwig, formerly of Bluffton is
gas plant operator and Glen Moser
of this place, stationary engineer.
Although it is big plant, continu
ously in operation, it requires only
about % men, about five to each
shift, who have all the responsibility
for their particular trick.
Remember Lila Moon of Rawson,
one of the talented young pianists
at Bluffton college several years ago
she's married now and as Lila
Moon Kopra she appeared on the
Horace Heidi program at Houston,
Texas, in a piano number on Sun
day night about three weeks ago.
She got a $3.50 cash award and
also is eligible for the $4,000 grand
prize.
She studied for eight years under
Mrs. Pearl Mann, later at Chicago
fand now is engaged in concert work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Baumgartner
have leased their so acre farm in
Orange township to Norval Which
and after their public sale Monday
are heading back to the great open
spaces in the west.
When we say great open Spaces"
we mean just that, for they have a
1,400 acre farm-or ranch if you
want to be western-at Mountainair,
New Mexico, about 85 miles east of
Albuquerque.
Binto beans is the big crop in
that section and Mountainair, about
the size of Bluffton, is one of the
principal market centers. Four big
elevators are required to handle the
crop. Binto beans are those small
speckled beans you see in the gro
ceries.
Water for growing crops is the
big problem, irrigation not being
practicable because of the noun
famous terrain.