The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-04-20
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The C. E. society met Sunday
evening with Ralph, Kenneth and
Don Marshall.
Mrs. William Risser who has
spent several months with her
daughter Mrs. Walter Cupp, left
Thursday for Rudolph where she
will be guest in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Richardson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Begg spent
Thursday and Friday in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Leidy in
Brice.
Miss Madeline Bixel of Rittman
was a week end guest in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Marshall and
son Robert.
/ Several students who reside in
this vicinity are taking part in the
Operetta to be given by the high
school group in Beaverdam Friday
evening. Everyone is cordially in
vited to attend.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Begg and son
John and Mr.. Harley Van Meter
motored to the ]. T. Begg farm
near Cleveland where they spent a
day enroute to the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Van Meter in jefferson
where they spent the week end.
i Mrs. Guy Mayberry called on Mrs.
ID. C. Campbell at Lima Memorial
hospital last Tuesday evening. Mrs.
Campbell is slowly recovering, fol-
lowing an operation for gall stones
more than week ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Marshall and
son Robert and Miss Rebecca Mar
shall were in Bowling Green, Friday
for the solo and ensemble contests
where Robert entered the flute solo
contest and received rating of Su-
perior and was chosen first alternate
to the State contest in Oberlin. His
cousin Rebecca accompanied him at
the piano.
A group from the Riley Creek
Baptist church in Orange township
will present a play Thomas and
the Risen Lord" at the local M. E.
church Sunday evening. The char
acters are: Thomas, the disciple of
Christ, Orren Zimmerman; Deborah,
his mother, an aged woman, Mrs.
Mary Stewart; Salome, Miss Pearl
Cribley; Mary Magdalene, Evelyn
Gallant; Peter, the disciple, Edgar
Pifer; John the Disciple, Harry
Ream. Musical numbers will be
furnished by the choir. The scene
of the play takes place in the home
of Deborah, mother of Thomas who
is a merchant. Time: two hours
after Jesus is arrested. Everyone
5 is cordially invited.
r The April meeting of the Friend
| ly Neighbors club will be held in
the home of Mrs. Wava Amstutz
Wednesday afternoon of next week
with the following program: Roll
call, My Best 10c Purchase; Paper,
"The Dionne Family, Mrs. Eunice
Stephens; Paper, "When Mark Twain
was Boy, Mrs. Maud Cook; Con-
test, Mrs. Mary Dunlap; Song, club.
Messrs. Walter and Orrin Cupp
and Glen Mayberry represented the
local church at meeting of Presby-
terry held in Ada, Monday.
Mrs. Audrey Hofer and Mrs.
Laura Gottshall and Mrs. Evelyn
Beals of Bluffton and Mrs. w. E.
Marshall and Mrs. Guy Mayberry of
this place attended the annual in
spection of Ottawa Chapter o. E.
S. last Thursday evening.
Miss Edythe Cupp, teacher of
Home Economics in the Bluffton
school and a group of her All club
} girls attended a state meeting in
Columbus, Saturday at which time
the Bluffton group was one of ten
in the State, receiving an award of
merit for outstanding work the past
year.
Miss La Donna Campbell, who
sang with the Wooster Girls Glee
club in nearby towns Sunday, spent
Saturday at the bedside of her
{ mother at Memorial hospital in
Lima.
Gene, young son of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Howard Carey who recently under
| went an operation for appendicitis
, is now afflicted with infamatory
rheumatism and is bedfast at the
home of his parents on the d. c..
5 Campbell farm.