The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-09-17

| AS LONG as we have been around
printing shops, a piece of orange
colored paper still has the same
meaning it did for us in our kinder
garten days. We can scarcely resist
picking up scissors, cutting the
paper into the semblance of circle,
just little fiat on top and bottom,
leaving a protrusion for stem, and
regarding our creation as pumpkin
symbol of the approaching sea-
son.
When our calendar notes that
next Wednesday will be the first
day of autumn, we Immediately
begin to think of the orange
paper pumpkins that will begin
to decorate school windows, and
real ones used for fashioning
Halloween jack-o-lanterns.
But last fall, when we started to
search for a pair for the kids, it was
a surprise to learn there were none
of jack-o-lantern size on the market
this side of Findlay, or even as far
south as Beaverdam. At the moment
we attributed the dearth of plump
pumpkins in local stores to the fact
that every townsman had friends on
the farm who kept him in supply, and
hence grocers could not dispose of
them.
Only recently, the real reason
for the disappearance of. the
pumpkin came to our attention.
Apparently the pumpkin short
age is another price of progress.
The pumpkin and mechanical
corn pickers, we are told, do not
like each other. One of them, it
seems must go, and it isn't like
ly to be the corn picker.
And thus it is that ancient symbols
pass into oblivion. By careful search
ing we can still find the picturesque
old rail fence, but try to find the
happy combination of the old rail
fence guarded by sentinels of shock
ed corn and roly-poly pumpkins peek
ing from the shocks.
We're going to have frost this fall,
but it won't be on the punkin.
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SIGNS OF THE SEASON-local
cider mills turning out their amber
product that will soon be served with
doughnuts a combination we
have never particularly fancied, but
popular nevertheless . and great
clusters of blue and white grapes
being gathered now to be put up on
the shelves as jelly, jams and you
know-what football season here
bringing a record crowd with it at
the high school preview game last
Friday, and it's a guess that crowds
will be larger this year with the
Pirates trying their luck in new
league the Bluffton marching
band, looking smarter than ever on
the field and tickling the fans with a
salute to the officials-"Three Blind
Mice" Squirrel season opening with
another 80 days of sport for local
nimrods and Gene Benroth, who
wasn't going to be out on opening
day, what with a stiff neck and
but nevertheless hang
ing up four fresh squirrel tails on
the News Office wall before most of
US were stirring at z a. m.
AND NOW THAT ANOTHER
summer is passing out of the
picture, it's time to wonder
whether Bluffton will have its
m c h-talked- about swimming
pool by the time the weather gets
hot again.
Over in Ada, the municipal
pool closed another season on
Sunday, August 80, with a record
of heavy attendance. Total paid
admissions were 9,253. Children
accounted for 7,04O and adults,
2,213. Gross receipts were
$4,596.6O.
THE NUMBER of little brown
Mexican people one sees. on
Bluffton streets during the summer
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