The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-23
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lhe annual Red Cross roll call was
in progress in this vicinity the past
week with very good response, ac-
cording to solicitors.
A number of members in this
vicinity attended the Richland Town
ship Farm Bureau party held in the
high school cafeteria and gym in
Bluffton last Friday evening.
Mrs. Alvin Augsburger was a
guest at meeting of the Profit and
Pleasure club held in the home of
Mrs. Isaac Neuenschwander, Wednes
day afternoon of last week. Mrs. j.
O.. Cupp gave a very fine talk on
the Cathedrals of Europe and the
United States and the Story of
Hymns was ably presented by Mes
DANES Byron Mcdowell and
Lawrence Begg.
Mrs. Herbert Marshall Jr. has gone
to Benton Harbor, Mich, to spend
some time with her mother, Mrs.
Moril.
Jack Loci, the eighteen months old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lowell Spicer
passed away at the home of his
grandparents Mr.. and Mrs. |. S.
Bum in Columbus Grove, Wednesday
following a brief illness. Funeral
services were held Friday afternoon
at the Hartman funeral home IN
Columbus Grove. Interment in Rock
port cemetery. Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Spicer of Lima, former residents of
this place are the paternal grand
parents. The father is in the armed
services.
Mrs. Harold Marshall, Allen
County chairman of Home Demon
stration projects, attended Achieve
! ment Day in Van Vert County which
was held in the Y. w. c. A. in Van
Vert one day last week.
Miss Elizabeth Campbell will leave
Tuesday of next week for Los
! Angeles, Calf, where she plans to
secure work and probably continue
her studies in Dress Designing. She
was a graduate, last spring, of the
Jarvis School of Designing in Cleve-
land.
| Lysle Cahill arrived here last
Wednesday evening after spending
three weeks in Seattle, WASH, and
several days in Minneapolis, Mimi,
on business trips. He and Mrs.
Cahill, who has been the guest of
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Orlo Mar
shall, returned to their home in
Cleveland, Thursday.
The Junior class of Beaverdam H.
S. sponsored skating party at the
Bluffton rink last Friday evening
which was well attended by students
from this vicinity. Among the class
members are jeanette Huber, Vera
! Downing, Dwain Fett and Harold
/ Thomas.
H Mrs. F. C. Marshall was among
those who attended the March birth
day party at the Oliver Davidson
Lemley home in Pandora last Satur-
day evening, when Mr.. Davidson, his
mother Mrs. Gabriel Davidson and
his sister Mrs. Pearl Lemley who
:, have March birthdays invited others
to share the celebration with them
, Fifty-five guests responded to the
invitation and a delightful evening
was spent together.
Miss Jayne Mayberry spent the
week end in Wapakoneta, the guest
of Miss Mary Ellen Gunther.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. l.. Mayberry anc
granddaughter, Donna Lou Strattor
of near Columbus Grove were Sunday
: dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
c. Mayberry and family.
Ensign William Kohl who ha:
!. been in the Southwest Pacific, is
spending short leave with hi:
4 parents Mr.. and Mrs. Coy Kohl
: while his ship is in San Francisco
1 harbor for repairs.
Miss Jayne Mayberry had as he
5 Tuesday evening dinner guests thu
r Misses Dorothy QuilIen of Lima
4 Martha Danaenhausen of Delphos
7 Agnes Nester and Mary Ellen Gun
E ther of Wapakoneta and Mrs. Rub.
Brennemen of Lima. All are EN-
| ployed in the o. S. F. office in Lima
: The Misses Quillen and Danaenhaus
4 en- are leaving for California the lat
ter part of the month.
Mrs. Ezra Bucher entertained /;
group of friends and neighbors at ;
quilting party Wednesday.
News of the death of Mr.. Marshal
: Jennings, from heart attack, a
his home in Beaverdam, Sunda.
. afternoon, came as shock to thi
, community. Mr.. Jennings has beel
the genial manager of the Farmer
Elevator in Beaverdam for a mum
Der of years and will be great.
: missed in that capacity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Price who ar
: being transferred from Ft. Lauder
dale, Florida, to Urbana, ILL.,, spen
the week end with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM
Krohn and family in Findlay AM