The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-23

Kenneth Jackson of Dayton was a
Bluffton visitor on Tuesday.
Notice-The Minerva Beaute shop
will be closed for one week from Aug.
3 to 10. ID
48o farm loans; payment privilege,
quick service, long time. H. w. AL
taus. Phone 374-W.
Samuel Hauenstein is excavating
a basement under his residence on
North Lawn avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Lape of Grove
street are enjoying a two weeks
vacation at lake near Middlebury,
Ind.
The Richland Grange ice cream
social has been postponed until
Tuesday, August A, it was announced
the first of the week.
Miss Alice Ludwig, who has been i'll
at the Lima Memorial hospital, has
been removed to her home on Poplar
street and is much improved.
While they last-Maytag washers
S79.5O. Don't delay; no more May
tags available after the present
stock is sold. C. F. Niswander.
An ice cream social will be held at
the Pleasant Hill church on Thursday
night. 1t will be sponsored by the
Ladies Aid society of the church.
Miss Sylvia Thut of Oak Harbor
spent over Saturday night and Sun
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Amos Thut of South Main street.
Mrs. r. L. Triplett of Campus
Drive has returned from New Hav-
en-, Conn.,, where she visited at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Roland
Bixler.
Mr.. and Mrs Francis Devier and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ewing returned
Tuesday from a weeks vacation at
the Mackinack Straits in Northern
Michigan.
| Mrs. Gertrude Gage of College
avenue left last Friday for a two
weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs.
Mckinley Woodwork and family at
Lagrange, Ind.
There will be an ice cream social
at the st. Johns Reformed church
this Wednesday night at $50 o'clock.
| Chicken sandwiches, coffee, cake, pie
and ice cream will be served.
Corporal Walter Williamson of
Key Field, Meridian, Miss, is spend
ing a ten days furlough with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ID. d.
Williamson of Orange township.
The Gertrude Hoy Missionary
circle of the st. Johns church will
hold a bake sale at the Bluffton
Implement g. Harness Co. store this
Saturday, from 8 to 100 o'clock.
i Basinger ambulance removals
Mrs. R. X. Cooney, Bluffton hospital
to her home on south Jackson
street; Mrs. Dick Habegger from
Bluffton hospital to her home or
West Elm street.
Sunday dinner guests of the
Misses Minnie and Lucy Bessire ano
Chas. Bessire were: Mr.. and Mrs
Ray Griffith and family of Var
Buren,, and Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Scoles
and family of Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. James of De,
troit spent the week end with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Kauff.
man. Mr.. and Mrs. James, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Kaufman and Mr.. and Mrs
Joe Stage were at Russell'sr Point
Sunday.
Prof. and Mrs. N. E. Byers Of
East Kibler street had for then
week end guest, Miss Edna Hanley
of Decatur, Ga. Miss Hanley, for
mer Bluffton college librarian is nov
librarian at Agnes Scott college il
Decatur.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Stratto,
entertained at dinner Tuesday even
ing: Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hardwicl
and daughters Patricia and Carolyl
of Findlay; Mrs. Richard Percy o
Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. A. J. Perry O
Glendale, Calf, and Mr.. and Mrs
Larry Miller of Lima,
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Lora ant
daughter Eloise of South Main stree
attended the S0th birthday anniver
sary of his mother, Mrs. Nancy Bas
niger at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Clarence Basinger of Columbu
Grove where the dinner was hel,
Sunday.
There's enough coal for everyon
if you place your order now. Phon
US today, while coal is available a
summer prices. Steiner Coal Co
Phones 265-Y and 174-W.
Mr. and Mrs. A. j. B. Longsdor
attended the Longsdorf family re
union at the Tom Longsdorf rasidenc
in Wadsworth on Sunday. While ther
they attended services at the Firs
Mennonite church where Don Smuck
er, a former student of Mr.. Longs
DORIS, is the minister. They also Wis
tied relatives in Wooster on Sunday.
David Boegli of Centralia, Wash
ington, arrived here Unexpectedly tn
first Of the week to spend ten day
with relatives. A former residen