The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1940-01-18
Settlement

.1 hIo. JESSE otSAiS1 VI
Toledo visited over the week end at
the home of his mother, Mrs. S. w.
Steiner west of Bluffton.
Mrs. d. j. Unruh left for Chigcago
the latter part of last week to be at
the bedside of her mother who is still
quite i'll.
c. d. Steiner was in Smithville,
where he was one of the speakers at
the Farmers Institute, two days of
last week.
The church Council of the four
Mennonite churches are planning to
have fellowship meeting in the near
future. The st. John church council
is to be the host.
The six year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Aaron Hilty had the misfortune
of falling from the barn approach to
concrete surface ten feet below. The
lads head struck when he fell and as
result became unconscious and re-
mained in that condition for several
days. His condition is now reported
quite favorable again.
Messrs A. E. Kohl, Clayton and
Richard Bixel were in Columbus on
Tuesday to attend a Ford tractor
meeting.
The sudden death of Hiram Burk-
holder came as a shock to the COM
munity. His funeral was conducted
from the Ebenezer church on Tuesday
afternoon in charge of his pastor,
Rev. p. A. Kliewer. The deeply be
reaved widow with her four little
children have the heartfelt sympa-
thy of their many relatives and
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. c. Wehrly and Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Hilty left on Tuesday
for Florida, where they are expecting
to remain for a period of five or six
weeks.
Misses Marie Imbach, Lorena Hoch-
stettler and Mrs. Marion Hochstettler
left Saturday noon for Ft. Wayne and
Woodburn, Ind, to visit relatives.
They returned Sunday evening.
Word has been received from Noah
Bixel who recently left for California
that on their way out they encounter
ed much snow and unusually cold
weather prevailed on the southern
route much of the way.
A. E. Campbell is assisting party
in purchasing draft horses to be
shipped to some of our larger horse
markets from our locality.
After lull of a few days of real
winter weather last week, it seems
that Sunday fresh and new hold has
been regained, causing the thermome-
ter to drop much lower again.
Federal and state veterinarians are
making a careful survey of flocks of
sheep all over the state relative to
smybiotic scabies, a disease that af-
fects the sheep just above the hoof
and does not spread to the woody por-
tions of the sleeps body.
Hayden, Celina and Stella Steiner,
who are teaching school in Toledo and
Cridersville, spent Saturday and Sun
day with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
P. c. Steiner and sister Irma.
Mrs. Josephine Moser is expecting
to leave in the near future for Florida
to spend part of the winter with Mr..
and Mrs. Kindig, who are at home in
Ferdinando of that state.
Guy Stewart was quite i'll last week
as a result of heart attack.
Miss Mary Haas, Missionary on fur
lough from Africa is spending some
time showing some slides and telling
of her work in her mission field. She
is to visit some churches in Illinois
and Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Schultz are the
proud parents of baby girl born to
them last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Sutter, Mrs.
d. ID. Sutter and daughter Della, re-
turned to their home last Friday after
spending several weeks in California
and other points of interest in the
West.
Francis Geiger is making several
trips each week to Cleveland with
truck loads of livestock.