The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-11-20
Mainly Personal

we envisioned the huge pile of bones
that would be the end of Stanley
Wiedman's flock of turkeys within a
day or two of the feast day. Probably
the mass would tower higher than the
roosts they've called home all summer
and fall.
| A single turkey carcas after the
first few hours out of the oven has
always been a discouraging sight, and
there we were visioning a mountain
of jagged bones of this once proud.
flock. . -.....-.. ....
We have passed Mr.. Wiedman's
birds on numerous occasions this
summer and began to feel they
were our friends. So you'll pardon
us while we doff our hat and pay
our respects to those who must go
ahead to their reward in turkey
| heaven.
And now, Mother, please pass us a
drum stick while we get on about our
business.
BUT DON'T WASTE your pity on
the local pheasant population. Ap-
parently they were we'll able to care
for themselves last Saturday when
the annual army of hunters opened
the season Few reports this year
of full game pockets and there were
none to break into the News office TO
report they had bagged the limit . !
But Bluffton streets were enlivened
by the sportsmen in khaki who crowd
ed local restaurants for breakfast and
lunch.
The local street scene was also
frightened by the fresh faces of
some 200 Hi-Y and Tri-Y young
sters who gathered on the college
campus for their conference Sat-
urday -. At noontime they
paraded Main street with their
convention badges /. handsome
group of young people who ap-
pear to be well able to take the
world over as we older buffers
give up the reins.
"a friendly town." one week
end visitor was heard to remark.
'T've passed five people who have
spoken as though they knew me-"
AND WHERE ELSE could it hap
pen in this day of the 53-cent dollar
and constantly rising costs that some
thing could be getting cheaper--the
light rates. So far, we've heard no
one squawking about that! Perhaps
it will take some of the edge off the
new sewer service charge that will
bite at our pocketbooks very shortly.
While electric rates will take an
appreciable drop the villages
board of public affairs is not fig
uring on losing too much revenue.
Experience has shown, they say,
that where power is cheaper more
of it is used. So if Blufftonites
do not have more change i'm their
pockets as a result of the lower
rates, they will be enjoying more
and more labor-saving devices i'm
their homes and businesses.
| Of course that will give the women
folk more time to organize more clubs
to use up all their leisure time.
NEIGHBORS, residing only four
blocks apart in Chicago, the two
American-Japanese speakers who
spoke from the pulpits of two differ
ent Bluffton churches last Sunday
were unaware that they would meet
in this Ohio town. Neither knew that
the other was to come here until after
their arrivals.
Last Sunday the Rev. George
Nishimoto, who spoke at st. Johns
Evangelical and Reformed church,
found time to hear his neighbor, the
Rev. Jitsuo Morikawa speak at the
Mennonite church.
SHOEMAN WALTER GRATZ ap-
peared at his store on Mondays
spring-like morning wearing in his
lapel two dandelion blooms, rarieties
for this time of year in Bluffton.
"If this weather keeps up" several
persons remarked, "we'll have to get
out the lawnmowers again."
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THE SEWAGE DISPOSAL project
has only been underway two weeks
now and already the two contractors
have sunk $4,000 in the holes they