The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-11-02

the Jaycees behind the big push to
get out the vote next Tuesday =.
fact is, they'll furnish autos for
those who need transportation-also
baby-sitters while mothers are at
the polls-the boys are now being
briefed on the fine points of baby
sitting-bottle warming, diaper con-
troll and all the other things well
trained baby sitter should know
just telephone the Jaycees head
quarters and you'll get response
quick as wink their motto is
every mother a voter-and everyone
else, too, for that matter-reminds
US of the late Jack Hardy, quaint
Bluffton philosopher who used to say
on election day that good Democrats
should votee arly and often =. all
of which harkens back to the days
when grandpappy took his toddy and
his politics straight-never split a
ticket and vowed he wouldn't shave
until Bryan was elected those
were the days when Richland town
ship could be counted as solid
democratic block and torchlight pa
rades whooped it up for Grover
Cleveland in this erstwhile citadel
of true and glue standpat democra-
cy-how times have changed with
all those Republican votes IN pre-
cinct B politics back in those
days probably generated more heat
than light-but at least there were
discussions of things political q.
| so mark next Tuesday on your cal
endar and be sure to vote.
James Harmon Of South Lawn
avenue is current custodian of that
peripatetic (gallivanting, to you)
goat tethered last week in Miss Alice
Ludwig's back yard on Poplar
street. Seems the goat is an ad-
junct of Buttons Jaycees with its
care and feeding devolving upon the
most recent initiate, at least, so
we've learned via the grapevine.
Remember Carey Steiner, former
/ Blufftonite with a fine tenor voice
now operating one of Northwest
0hio's thriving dairy businesses at
/ Bryan-where he is one of the main
stays of a better -than-average bar
bershop quartet, that otfshoot of
| American folk music modulating into
| diminished sevenths {barbershop
chords to you) j. That's his relax
ation-more serious, however, is his
singing in a church choir and his
daughter Elizabeth, carrying out the
family musical tradition enjoys the
Presbyterian church organ there.
Sixty years as a subscriber to
the Bluffton News is the record of
the Oscar Weavers, west of Beaver
dam on the Lincoln highway, who
renewed their subscription Tuesday,
It was way back in 1890, when they
were Just married that Mrs. Weav-
er's father, Samuel Light, made
them a wedding gift of subscrip-
ton to the News-and it has been
regular weekly visitor in the
Weaver home since that time. Con.
gratulations to a mighty fine couple
~
airy and best wishes for many years
to come.
1t was fifty years ago. Tuesday
that Bluffton college dedicated its
first~-h-l4uiIiYg =rrow-venerable ivy,
covered College hall, and that pic.
ture on the first page of last weeks
Bluffton News revived a lot of al
but forgotten recollections of a by
gone era and way of life that pos
sessed an undeniable charm-like tht
haunting scent of delicate perfume
difficult to describe but nonetheles!
real.
Those from around Pandora drove
by horse and buggy-but for tht
most part the crowd came on foot
pretty much through curiosity, rath
er than any appreciation of educa
tional of intellectual niceties
fact is Bluffton of those days wa!
far from being college consciou:
when all hands worked from dawr
to dusk bringing in new wells from
the booming oil fields in Orange anc
Union townships-and roistered owe
the week ends when stud poker wa
king there wasn't a trace o.
academic atmosphere = no caps
gowns or other collegiate trapping!
and youthful president Noal
Hirschy, from Berne, Ind, one O
those captains courageous whc
dared sail uncharted seas in tha
adventure of faith :. SO they dedi