The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-03-23
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Well it's here-spring, that is
Just what everyone has been won
dering where it went to after winter
decided to set in about a month ago
after fooling around since the holi-
days and speaking of fooling,
perhaps after all we were the ones
who got fooled when we thot the
Groundhog missed his cue last month
after he saw his shadow and fore
cast six weeks more cold weather.
anyway we got it ;. and since
springs officially here since 11:36
o'clock Monday night and Tuesday
turned up with reasonable facsimi-
lie of spring weather, Bluffton will
be getting that rustic of spring feel
ing-crocuses in bloom motor
lists changing tags-yes, they're
those aluminium jobs again which
you gotta handle with care !. and
fishermen getting tackle out of stor-
.age-they say there's to be a big
fishing derby again this spring !.
| not forgetting gardeners getting
| ready to get going as soon as the
| ground dries out a bit after all
| these rains and Marshal Lee
Coon keeping sharp eye out for
| parking violators - better observe
that three-hour parking regulation
| in the business district or it may
| cost you a buck-and that goes for
| double parking, too and remem-
ber time is getting short to get
those new auto tags-and the more
| you put it off, the longer you'll have
| to stand in line and the less you'll
have for late Easter shopping-don't
blame US for these two budget-dent-
ers turning up at the same time
| fact is we're about ready to start a
campaign to change the date of eth
er Easter or the auto tag deadline
until the middle of the summer-it
would make things lots easier-con-
venient terms, they told us at the
used car lot the other day when we
| wanted to trade in the old chevy
Mrs. Josephine Augsburger Rey-
nolds of Kermit, Texas, daughter of
the Albert Augsburgers who in re-
| newing her subscription says her
| husband doesn't know anyone in
Bluffton, but enjoys the feature
"True Tales About Ohio" appearing
| in the Bluffton News, which We be-
lieve is one of the best features in
any current publications. you're
| not reading them, it's a good time to
start now /. !. also congratulations
to Lois Rich, who will be May Queen
at Bluffton college-some old timers
will be interested to know that her
mother, Mrs. Rufus Rich of Wash
ington, Illinois, is the former Lillian
Lantz who attend college here.
Bluffton people may be supersti-
tious, but you never would know il
down at Dave Reichenbach's garage
where they had out the auto license
tags. Anyway motorists don't bat an
eyelash, Dave says, when they get a
number ending in the traditionally
unlucky 13.
Some there are who want special
numbers-tags identical with their
thouse Or telephone number-and
there was one fellow who asked for
711-shades of galloping dominoes.
Grover C. Battles of Bartlesville,
Okla, Orange township native and
well known here some 80 years ago,
has retired after completing 20 years
of service with the Shell Oil COM
pany.
A picture of the former Bluffton
area man appears in a current issue
of the Shell company's magazine cir
culated among their employees.
Battles comes from family init
mately associated with the oil boom
here SO years ago. He become con-
nected with the Shell organization in
| 1871 1T Avail, ohld.y WiCiC iiS AA0H
since worked as routabout and
pumper.
His wife is the former Martha
Powell of Rawson. They have two
children, son, now of the Eldorado
Kansas, police force, and a daugh-
ter still in high school.
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An auto collision-no damage be,
yond a couple of dashed in tenders
and body dents-all of whichr is
nothing unusual but when the
insurance adjuster is on the spot
where the accident occurred, that's
getting into the realm of the un.
usual and the unusual is always
news.
That's what happened Monda.
afternoon when cars driven by Har
| ry Yoder of High street and Clar
enve V. Jones of Orange township
same together at the College ane
Lawn avenue intersection-and be