The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-06-15
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Knee-deep in June-when spring
| and summer meet scent of new
mown clover through the country
| side-and roses-those wild ones
along the roadside lend touch of
delicate beauty and strawber-
ries plentiful-and not expensive if
you pick your own early cher
ries ripening with birds taking their
toll and last Fridays heavy
downpour that assumed cloudburst
proportions gave gardens and farm
crops needed boost-they say
wheat, oats and hay will be short
this year !. and shorter will be
the whisker crop for this years
Fourth of July Frontier days-that
luxuriant crop of chin foliage that
grew SO prolifcally year ago prob
ably will mark the high water mark
in hirsuite appendage since days
back in the nineties when the boys
got shaved once a week in
whiskcrs we're talking about the
real thing, of course, not the false
fronts they're going to substitute
this year Bluffton still on the
upgrade when it comes to building
households like record year for
postwar residence expansion with
still more houses planned to be
started this summer-but it appar-
emily doesn't even put dent in the
housing shortage-and on the larger
projects there's the college gym
and if the new swimming pool pro-
ject jells there will be still more
Jobs and Ralph Stearns and
Jack Berry of the post office cele-
brating birthdays on Tuesday-the
18th was a lucky day for them
Ralph 54 and Jack 43, which calls
for congratulations and best wishes
and here comes Fathers Day,
Sunday-when Dad is king for a
day-a bit battered he is, perhaps,
and without the least resemblance
to a movie matinee idol-and his
writing could be better-but his sig
nature on a check is good at the
bank so let's give Dad big
hand with his annual tribute of
ties, sox and smokes or write
him a letter-which will make him
lot happier than he will admit
the idea started forty years
ago and has grown into well-nigh a
world wide custom . and anglers
getting the summer urge to go fish
ing-they say there will be a gen
eral exodus to Canada lakes on
Fourth of July week, when Bluffton
takes its annual summer vacation.
And with the Fourth of July in
the offing comes the perennial ques-
ton about sparklers-are sparklers
fireworks-they're not specifically
mentioned in the state law prohibit
| ing ACKNOWLEDGMENT, the state
fire marshal's office has ruled that
sparklers are included under the pro-
visions of the statute and also Bluff
toms municipal ordinance bans them,
together with cap pistols.
Louis Johnson, secretary of de-
tense in President Truman's cabinet
was the writer of letter received
last week by Mrs. Nettie Carder OF
South Main street, recalling the days
| when her late husband w. w. Card
| er and johnson were fellow members
of the house of representatives IN
the West Virginia legislature.
Especially mentioned in the letter
from the top federal official is the
close association with Carder he
recalls during the time the two col
laborated in their state government
al posts following the close of the
first World war.
Mrs. Carder said they served in
the legislature from 1917 to 1919.
Residents of adjoining counties, the
two men had been friends before be-
| ing elected to office and their asso-
Citations became even closer after
| that time.
An English pointer, raised as
pup by Mr.. and Mrs. Robert STRAIT
ton and frequently seen on streets
here with the couple until last sum-
mer, has been crowned Grand Cham
pion of Mexico.
The Strattons last summer re-
turned the dog to Pennsylvania
kennel where Mrs. Stratton form