The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-05-05
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Comes the merry month of May
a month dedicated 10 Mothers
day and glamorous May queens
-Maypoles and Maydays-not to
forget those moonlit nights when
high romance broods over College
road Just off the campus and
cute little May baskets :. and
commencements sweet girl grad
uates and peach and apple
blossoms bursting into bloom
and that japanese cherry tree in
full bloom at the home of Sidney
Stettler and his sister, Mrs. Inez
Neuenschwander - colored pictures
of the tree were taken by Paul
Diller, Tuesday morning and
corn planting and fishing
(. and the trek for mushrooms
and Memorial day and start of
summer vacations and coming
down to earth, remember the order
this week is shoulder arms and join
the cleanup brigade for Buttons
week of community houseclean-
ing starting Thursday morning
scrub brushes and mops will spear
head the attack with paint brushes,
saws, hammers and what have you
bringing up the second wave of
troops to consolidate the gains
there's a job for everyone-nothing
too big or too little to get thor
ough going-oVer-surprising what can
be done with little scrubbing, plus
some paint; and last but not least a
determination to fix up things now
instead of putting it off busy
week, this, but we take time off to
extend congratulations to the two
birthdays at the Niswander imple-
ment store, Tuesday-the chief, c.
F., himself and Harry Shrider, Jr.,
employed there-many more happy
birthdays TO both.
Speaking of the new look-it's
here, even in digging ditches-that
power-driven outfit doing the exca-
waiting for the Buckeye Pipes trunk
oil line from Lima to Toledo is
near Bluffton this week-when you
read this you probably can get a
good look at it by driving out Route
103 a short distance east of the
county line.
Where once sweating horses and
men laboriously did the work by
hand, it's all done by machinery
now, cutting a trench about four
feet deep and covering about a
mile day. We happened out there
Monday and instead of shoyel-wield-
ing laborers was crew of mechan-
les and operators seeing that every
thing about the ditcher was oper-
ating smoothly. A bulldozer pre-
pared the right of way week or SC
ago, cutting path through fields
and woods for the big outfit. Fol-
lowing the ditcher are welders con-
Meeting sections of the pipe and
mechanical equipment for placing il
in the trench and covering it up.
It's an experiment in community
cooperation-that opening of the
mems room at the town hall. 1t
has been closed since last fall when
vandals wrecked the place with acts
of wanton destruction. Because OF
depredations Of a few irresponsibles
devoid of any vestige of decency and
civic responsibility, the general pub
lie must be inconvenienced. Open
ing of the room now is on tenta-
tive basis-if it is 10 continue being
misused there viii be no alternative
but to close the place permanently
Mushrooms-that delectable NOR
sci of early spring-were plentiful
the past week and mushroom hunt
ers were numerous, nearly every
one returning with some success
Among the more successful were
Morris Kohl who found So in ar
orchard, and Harry Shrider, Sr.
and son-in-law 0rville Basinger who
gathered two gallons along Riley