The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-08-31

point of the current rise was
made last Friday when IS cents
bushel was quoted. Current
price Wednesday was SIS cents.
Ray Staater of Chicago visited the
past week with his sister, Miss
Zanna Staater of South Main street.
Mrs. Harry Ewing, patient in
the district tuberculosis hospital at
Lima has returned to her home in
Orange township.
Furs remodeled and repaired.
Mrs. Mae Matthews, ITO s. Lawn
avenue. Is
We will re-upholster and repair
your furniture, making it mighty
near like new-and at fraction of
the cost. Estimates without obi
cation. Murray Furniture Repair,
Washington and Thurman SITS. Phone
285-R.
Misses Mary Elise and Kathryn
Jane Springer, daughters of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Springer of Peoria, H.,
are spending month at the home
of their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. H. Stepleton of North Lawn
avenue.
Mrs. Beulah Temple Wild of
Houston, Texas, formerly of Bluff
ton, visited here Monday. She was
accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. N. A.
Tingley of Van Vert. Mrs. Wild
has been connected with the Houston
school system for a number of years
as a psychatrist.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.. Amstutz and
family north of Bluffton had as
their guests the past week Mrs.
Amstutz's mother, Mrs. r. Branden-
burg and Mr.. and Mrs. Brice Brand
enburg of Oxford. They returned
home accompanied by the latter's
daughter Lily Lue who has been
visiting here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Steiner and
family of near Sterling spent the
week end at the home of his father,
(. P. Steiner and daughter Lucille
east of town and attended the
Steiner family reunion on the Col
lege campus, Sunday.
Mrs. Clarence Fritz of Lansing,
Mich, and Alex Fullerton of Rock
port called Saturday at the Mrs. Eva
Kohl home on West Elm street.
Mrs. Eva Kohl and family visited
Sunday at the home of Thomas
White in Columbus Grove.
Mrs Margaret Steingraver Adams
formerly of this place and Mrs. Fred
Meyer of Mt. Cory who recently left
for the west have arrived in Oak
land, Calf, where they are visit
ing at the home of the formers
daughter, according to word received
| by friends here the first of the week.
Kenneth Deppler and Dan Merrill
of Columbus stopped at the home of
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eli Deppler of South Main street
Sunday. They were enroute to Col
| umbus after a weeks vacation in
Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nance Anderson and
daughter, accompanied by his mother,
Mrs. John Anderson all of Red Lion,
Pa, left Tuesday for their home after
spending several days visiting the
Anderson relatives in Bluffton and
Orange township.
Mrs. Adella Oyer, instructor in the
Graed schools, underwent a major
operation at Bluffton hospital Sat
urday. Mrs. Oyer will be unable to
resume her teaching duties at the
opening of school next week and
Mrs. Mildred Bixel Hartman will
substitute during her absence.
Rev. and Mrs. j. j. Plenert and son
James, accompanied by Mrs. Elmira
Bechtel and Miss Cornelia Froese of
Philadelphia motored here and spent
the week end with Mrs. Plenert's
brother, DR.. and Mrs. w M. Niswan-
der and family of South Jackson
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Neuenschwand-
er of this place and their son Rhuel
Niswander and daughter Patricia of
Sylvania are expected to return the
latter part of this week from al
motor trip to California They left
here early in August accompanied
by the formers daughter, Miss
Evelyn Niswander who sailed August
Is from Los Angeles for i the.
Hawaiian islands where she will
teach during the coming year.
Transformer trouble resulted in
two interruptions of electric service
here during the past week. The
first interruption occurred last We'd
nesday night when part of the busi-
ness section was in darkness for
about half-hour, due to the blow
ing out of a fuse. The second in
terruption occurred Tuesday night at
$3.50 o'clock when a transformer on
South Main street was burned out
during a comparatively mild cleo
tricaI storm. Repairs were made on
the transformer and service resumed
Wednesday morning.