The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-10-06

aged by her daughter, Mrs. Earl
| Carton.
If you were out past Jess Ander-
sons in Orange township last week,
you might have seen out in the field
one of the oldest grain drills still
doing a good job. Jess httehed UP
team of horses and soWed his
wheat with it-a Superior "8-8' fer
tifizer drill which his father, the
late David Anderson bought % years
| ago from Jacob Bowman, Blutfton
implement dealer whose store was
on Cherry street, where Tom hltch-
en- afterward continued the impie-
ment business. The site Is now oc-
cupied by Monroe Amstutz's auto
parts lot.
The little grain drill, sowing 8
rows s inches apart, was an object
of widespread interest and curiosity
when Jesse's father first wheeled IT
out in the field way back in 1890
drawn by a team of horses-by the
| way there was no seat for the drlV-
er, he walked. But the contraption
was new and praise bet sowed
fertilizer right along with the wheat
which was something new IN those
days when adding fertilizer to fields
lately cleared from wilderness was
something new. And by the way
those were the days when men were
men-they had to be, because ferti-
lizer came in 200 pound bags-quite
different from today's so pound
packets.
The boys in the football locker
rooms are still talking about little
Joe Jerger, Bluffton college fresh
man center whose resourcefulness
and determination to carry on in the
face of difficulties got him into the
Wilmington game.
But to start at the beginning,
here's what hcrpened-night before
the game Joe got word that his
father was i'll in a Mansfield hos
pital. Flashing word to Coach
Burcky that he would be on hand
for the game, Joe drove some 80
miles to Mansfield to see his father,
then down to Wilmington, arriving
| in the evening a half-hour before
game-time, played his regular posi-
ton at center and then drove back
to Mansfield to see his father again
and from there to Blutfton the
next morning This world needs
more Joe Jergers with determination
and backbone to carry on when the
going is rough. All of which re-
minds us of another good sport, the
late DR.. J. S. Steiner who always
played his best tennis game in an
uphill battle and won many a set
when odds appeared wen-nigh hope
less.
Week end air trips to Florida with
day of deep sea fishing in the Gulf
of Mexico may be routine for Bluff
ton people this winter if Bluffton
Airport's present plans work out
In fact Harold Carey and Clayton
Bixel of the airport here made a
trial flight last weekend over the
projected route.
Leaving here Thursday morning
at o'clock in their Stinson Flying
Station Wagon they arrived in Flor
ida at in the evening, fshed in
the bay off Sarasota, Friday long
enough to catch some and pound
speckled trout and groupers, also
checked rooming accommodations,
landing fields and restaurants. They
left Sarasota on the return trip Sat
urday morning at $50 arriving in
Bluffton at in the afternoon.
Present plans are to fly groups
of three passengers in three-day
weekend trips with one fee cover
ing all expenses including transpor-
tation, meals, lodging and deep sea
fishing-just the thing for the busy
man who wants to get a bit OF
southern sunshine and relaxation in