The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-08-06
Mainly Personal

must be set at the high point to make
lits descent and record the evenings
How:
| The lowest recording Ray ever has
lseen since his capacity as weather
Iobserver was the day in December,
1850, when he could scarcely believe
lhis eyes. 1t had dropped to 15 de-
Igrees below. Ray remembers the ex-
lact date-December 27. And he also
lean tell you without hesitation that
the highest reading he ever took was
102 degrees on June 20 of last sum-
inner.
| Burkholder's records, however, go
lback beyond his time. They were
taken over when a previous observer
in Ottawa died, and Ray took over the
duties. The areas coldest day in the
history of the records was % degrees
below-and again Ray has the date
on the tip of his tongue-January "a,
1914. The warmest day - or really
two days-were July % and "a, 1884
when the thermometer scared to lot.
| You might be interested to
know that the coolest recording
anyplace in Ohio was i'm 1899 on
February 9 and 10 when the tenn
perature fell to SO below and
4 Ctax,aI 4Lo~n t,.yo loyc IT, lii
est Ohio reading was 113 degrees.
! An interesting point Ray makes
is that when the general hot wea-
ther prevails over the entire
state, you can depend that the
fiat level country around here will
be about as hot as anyplace i'm the
state. However, when it is gen.
orally very cold over all the state,
the coolest spots are likely to be
in southeastern Ohio. Cold air
is like water, says Ray, it tends
to run to the low places i'm valleys
and the like.
The local weather observer also
| finds that popular interest in weather
conditions seems highest when the
mercury is lowest.
II seldom have inquiries during the
summer during real hot weather, but
when it starts to get cold can de-
pend on a lot of inquiries" he says.
"On an extra cold morning there may
be from 10 to Is telephone calls ask
ing How cold is it?'"
Heavy rainful also brings many
people to the phone asking Ray, how
much fell.
Being local weather observer is a
lot of trouble, but it's worth it, Burk-
holder believes.
Headline in last weeks issue of The
Leipsic Free Press.
COUNTY TO SPEND
LESS THAN INCOME
Well, we guess such things ARE
getting to be news in government re-
porting. Washington, please note!
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A FRIEND IN NEED very often
turns up in the strangest places. In
a remote mountain section of upper
New York last Saturday night, the
Gene Benroth family found them
selves stranded with broken trans
mission gear.
The only source of help appeared
to be small gas station-garage at
the foot of the mountain. The garage
man analyzed the trouble and sur
mized it would be Monday before a
new gear could be obtained.
Benroth was standing in front
of the station wondering what to
do when who should appear driv-
ing past but Dutch Augsburger,
mechanical genius of Bluffton, in
person. Dutch and wife Rhoda
were on a trip to Canada and
New England.
1t was a lucky day for Benroth
when Augsburger took over the situa-
ton. The Bluffton mechanic conferred
with the garageman, George Hasel-
ton, and Dutch suggested that the
needed gear was perhaps interchange
able with gears used in other cars.
He asked if the New Yorker might
| have a used one on hand.
Sure enough, he did. By noon the
next day the car was ready to return
homeward while Dutch and Rhoda
! headed eastward toward Maine look
ing for other Blufftonites.
LIVESTOCK RAISERS were warn
ed this week that new anthrax out
breaks can be expected in the next
flew months. because last wears ex-