The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1951-03-22
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Easter in the air-with shopping
for new Notwithstanding eggs in
furtive moments to help the over
worked Easter bunny =. never
could figure out how the bunny
made a nest and laid all those eggs
but, after all, there are a lot of
things that can't be explained
and speaking of eggs, some folks
with good memories told us that
back in 1932-depression days, re-
member-eggs were selling at nine
cents a dozen-which means, that
after all, we've come long way in
10 years and from current re-
ports of retailers, Bluffton's Easter
parade should be good this year
provided it doesn't rain-and if it
does then the oldtimers say it will
rain for seven Sundays . and the
Easter hats as usual will be beyond
description and schools closing
for the week end to give breather
before the onset of graduation
events and congratulations to
Ed Reichenbach who rounds out
seventeen years as postmaster
business has grown a lot since he
took over and they say that Bluff
ton will be advanced to first class
office ere long -.
Local interest In the regional
Class B basketball tournament finals
at Toledo last Saturday afternoon
ran unusually high-for the coach
of one team was from Bluffton and
the other from Mt. Cory, towns only
five miles apart.
Mentor of the regional champion
ship Grand Rapids team was Dale
Reichenbach, former Bluffton High
and Button College cage star, and
son of Postmaster and Mrs. Ed
Reichenbach. Directing the other
team was Coach Bob Morrison, son
of Mrs. Alva Morrison, who was a
high school star at Mt. Cory, where
his mother lived after moving from
Bluffton while Bob was in grade
school.
Reichenbach's Grand Rapids team
won from Leesville in the finals by
a score of Sc to 81.
Tobacco habits change, just as
everything else. A tour of downtown
tobacco shops leads to the discovery
that less chewing tobacco is being
sold nowadays than in bygone years.
This is believed largely due to
successful campaign among wives
which has made the old parlor ga
boon practically a museum piece.
Snuff, surprisingly enough, con-
tinues to command fair sale, local
stores report. Although sales never
have been large, the demand ap-
parently varies little from year to
year.
Do cows have a discriminating
taste when it comes to music? We
don't know for sure but the story is
going the rounds about a dairyman
in the Bluffton area who has gone
into the milk business in big way,
with all the latest gadgets, includ-
ing a radio, to bring soothing music
during milking time, which he in
sists increases milk production.
Everything went fine until the other
night when the radio wouldn't work,
so our resourceful dairyman tried
the next best thing-doing the sing
ing himself. He apparently is bet
ter at dairying than singing because
he said the trial was a complete
flop-at least from the milk pro-
duction standpoint. The radio-and
cows-both are back on the job this
week.
How many business places are
there in Bluffton Gould you guess?
Perhaps you could, but we doubt it.
A close check in connection with
the current Red Cross canvass sets
the number at 124. A business place
is designated as one where some
thing is sold. Bluffton Businessmen's
with the largest member
ship in its history, numbers 102
members.
Recollections of Bluffton at about |
the turn of the century, recalled by
the series of articles on early in
dustries now appearing in "The |
News" are in a letter received this
week from John T. Huber, of
A former agent for the Nickel
Plate railroad (then the Lake Erie