The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-07-20
THE BLUFFToN NEWS, BLUFFToN, OHIO

tenn, more housing and new swim.
ming pool, just to mention few
Harmon field popular with flu.
ture drum majors and majorettes
strutting their stuff at the close OF
weeks twirling school on the col
lege campus-Carol Moser, Bluffton
girl, won rating of second in her
class s. and Richland township
apparently has found a warm spot
in the hearts of the county COM
mlssioners over at Lima-anyway
we were first on the county's sum-
mer road work list, all of which has
been completed here, which we hast
en- to acknowledgement is, such a
hearty response has left us almost
speechless-anyway congratulations,
boys, we surely appreciate remem-
bering Richland township in such
handsome manner.
First homegrown roasting ears
of the season reported from the
garden of the Albert Augsburgers
south of town who had them as the
principal item for dinner last Sat-
trday-and also for the record, the
Augsburgers had cole slaw for
Fourth of July dinner made from
their early homegrown cabbage.
While the Augsburgers were enjoy
ing roasting ears, Sidney Stettler,
who usually is first in that class
had early garden-grown tomatoes
for dinner Saturday-and his first
roasting ears two days later, on
Monday.
We stuck out our neck last week
and lamented the passing of the
old time threshing dinners--well,
come to find out, they are still go
ing good in the Bluffton district,
although to be sure, not as numer-
Gus as they once were. To have
threshing dinners, you first must
have a threshing ring, one of which
is operated by Erwin Moser. The
ring consists of about dozen farm
ers living principally in one mile
strip west of the Allen-Hancock
county line. The ring is now going
in high gear with bountiful din
ners reminiscent of the good old
days.
Here for visit, the G. P.
Schneggs of Ell Monte, California,
former Bluffton residents. G. P, a
garage operator here in his younger
days wrote his name indelibly III
Buttons hall of fame when he made
an emergency drive to Lima in
hold your hat-forty minutes. In
those days most folks said nobody
could drive an automobile 16 miles
to Lima in forty minutes. Of
course there were in those days no
hard surface roads and 20 miles an
hour was considered top speed for
safe and sane driving.
You'll find some fine print in this
issue notifying you of budget hear
ings which you as a resident and
taxpayer have a perfect right to at
tend. However, don't take that SER
iously-we've never seen any visi-
tors at a budget hearing which is
about as uninteresting as anything
could be.
The law says there must be a
hearing when the estimated costs OF
operation of each government unit
town, township or school district
etc.-are detailed for the coming
year.
In Bluffton hearings are held by
the town council, school board and
Richland township trustees when the
clerk drones off a mass of figures in
deadpan monotone while board mem
bers smoke cigars or draw freehand
pencil sketches on scraps of paper
Seldom, if ever, does anyone raise a
question or interrupt the reading
and everyone is glad when it's over
and legal requirements are satisfied
Congratulations to South Jackson
street which has come up with a