The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-15

day with friends in Ft Wayne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Hilty and
daughter of Colfax, Washington, are
here for brief stay among rel
atives and friends. They expect to
return home the latter part of this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hilty and dau-
ghter Marylin of Chicago spent the
week end with home folks here.
Ella Reichenbach is at present
numbered among the sick.
One of the advisory councils is
being entertained at the n. N.
Soldner home Wednesday evening.
Earl, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Steiner was home over Sunday.
Exhibits at the Putnam County
fair last week were far less than
those of previous years.
Michael Angelone of jamestown,
N. Y, occupied the pulpit at the ST.
John church Sunday morning.
Miss Amelia Basinger, r. N, who
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
ID. j. Basinger and family for the
past month, left last week for Glenn
Cove, Long Island, N. Y.
Mrs. Lydia Burkholder, near the
Ebenezer chourch, who was i'll the
past two weeks, is able to be ur
and out again.
Mrs. Edwin Diller, north of Pan
| dora, who was at the st. Luke hos
pital at Cleveland the past two
| weeks for observation, returned te
her home Sunday evening.
! Teddy, thirteen old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Archie Diller, had the mis-
fortune to break an arm week age
Sunday while playing ball.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Amstutz art
the parents of baby daughter borr
to them Sunday evening at the
Community hospital at Bluffton
They have given her the name o.
Lucille Gayla.
Eugene Basinger of the CPS
camp at Howard, Penn, spent from
Friday until Monday evening will
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. d. ]
Basinger and family.
| Wayne, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Sommer, was operated on las
Saturday for appendicitis at tn
Community hospital at Bluffton. HI
is getting along nicely.
i Miss Carol Diller, who spent :
months vacation with her folks ol
the farm, returned to st. Luke's hos
pital at Cleveland where she is il
training.
The Living Link Sunday schoo
class of the Ebenezer church viii
meet with Mrs. Amos Tschiegg o
Bluffton on Thursday afternoon.
4 DR.. Harvey Bauman, recently re
turned from India, occupied the pull
pit at the Ebenezer church on Sun
day morning.
/ The Junior, Intermediates of tht
Ebenezer church will be entertained
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jot
Thompson on Wednesday evening.
| Rev. and Mrs. Harold Burkholdel
and children of Quakertown, Pa.
and Rev. and Mrs. Emerson Slotter
back and children of Altoona, Pa.
arrived the latter part of last week
to be in attendance at the Golden
Wedding celebration of their par
| ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Burk-
| holder which was held on Tuesday
of this week.
Walter Augsburger expects to
| leave the farm in the near future,
as he has purchased the Emil Garau
property in Bluffton on South Main
street. and intends to move to town.
His son Wade Augsburger and
family will move on the farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Omer Gratz attend
ed the football game at Liberty
Center last Friday evening. Ray
mond Rickley is an instructor in the
school.
One of the largest representations
of ministers we ever heard of at
tending wedding was present at
the marriage of Miss Mary Schimer
and Abe Baumgartner at the Zion
church in Elbing, Kansas, last Thurs
day morning. The ministers were
Rev. Z. ]. Neuenschwander, Nc
Pherson, who performed the cere-
mony; Rev. j. E. Kaufman and
Rev. c. H. Voth, Inman, Kans.; Rev.
P. p. Wedel, Moundridge, Kans.;
Rev. j. C. Kaufman, Whitewater,
kans.; Rev. p. H. Richert, Newton,
Kansas, all of whom gave three
minute talks at the reception. A
speaker at the occasion was also
sister Frieda, of Newton. Miss
Sehrimer is former missionary to
the Hopi Indians in Arizona. Two
Indian children were among the at
tendants of the couple at the cere-
mony. Mr.. Baumgartner was a for
mer Settlement boy, but now of