The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1954-08-05

4 bAUE is not the eva hiSoS yoO
54night think it is. As matter of
Tact the town has a first-class grade
of table scraps that makes Al eat
ing, if you happen to be a hog, and
don't mind an over abundance of
corn husks this time of year.
Ever since the town council talked
about cooking" garbage, We've visu-
allied the chore as the worlds worst
job. Last Thursday Lee Coon took
us out to the Arthur Swank farm
where the cookery goes on to witness
it ourself.
Wen, we don't want to trade
jobs with Lee or any of his crew,
but cooking garbage the way the
town crew does il is not half bad.
The truck simply backs up an
incline to the garbage stove
| Quilt by the light plant employ
ees at a cost of less than $1,000
and dumps its load. Lids are
placed on top, and huge weed
| burner torch is placed in position
under the kettle"
| 1t requires only an hour to bring
the load to boil. At that point, ac-
cording to state health authorities, it
is ready for the pigs. The pigs think
differently, however, preferring to
wait until the soup cools down lit
tie. eve forgot to mention-about
80 gallons of water is added to the
garbage before it is cooked).
Well admit there is a mild sour
smell about the process, but nothing
more violent than perhaps the sour
smell of silage.
When we first heard of cooking
garbage, we have to admit we
thought the sanitary land-fill
method, by which pit is dug
with a bulldozer and the garbare
constantly covered, would be
more satisfactory. This, of
course, involves the cost of
bulldozer and the expense of Op-
Grating and maintaining it. The
village steel garbage kettle built
for a century note is going to
last long while.
Lee says it works like charm.
His principal problem, however,
is getting housewives to realize
4 that waste paper has no place in
boiled garbage. Sure, piece of
paper in the bottom of the can
keeps the. goo from sticking -.
but, says Lee, the hogs don't like
il.
At present another problem that
adds unusual bulk to the collection
are the enormous piles of corn husks
bean pods, fallen apples, etc. Mex
season, perhaps, Lee will ask thai
this type of material be picked up OF
a separate flying collection. L
wouldn't have to be boiled, he says.
Collecting the town garbage,
rain or shine in winter or sum-
mer is a sort of thankless job,
but Lee and his crew don't worry
about that. They do it quickly,
efficiently, and at the price we
pay, it's one of the bargain serv-
ices of the day.
WE OFTEN WONDERED in tn,
past why our readers insist on sucl
columns in their weekly newspaper
as "News Grandfather Read" or "2
Years Ago In Podunk". Now weir
beginning to get to the age where w,
understand and enjoy reading abou
the cold days" in our own hometown
lpaper each week.
DR.. Harvey L. Eby of the Univer
sity of California faculty, forme
Blufftonite, who writes US occasion
ally when something in the New
strikes his fancy, says that he write
"just to get some of the nostalgia ou
of my system"
Wilhelm Amstutz' remarks som
months ago about the old grad
building quoted in this column appar
emily stirred the nostalgia in Califor
MIA.
Mr.. Amstutz had recalled when tn
top three grades of the high schoo
were housed in what is now the oil
grade school-due soon, we hope, +
be razed to make way for new fire
proof building.
81 believe l served as active
principal of the high school in
the room Mr.. Amstutz mentions
i'm March of 1899 under the su-
perintendency of b. F. Biery.
E. c. Akerman, the high school
principal, was absent on leave
granted by the board of educa-
tion, to electioneer for nomina-
tion as auditor of Allen county
n in the Democratic primary" DIR.
L Eby wrote.
"In 1902-1903, / served as princi
pal of the high school, under tn
superintendency of E. C. Akermar
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