The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-11-15

bath IN his metal helmet he longs for
return to the good old days at home
when tub baths were to be had any
time one wanted them. However, he
says there's no lack of water, because
it rains all the time.
Also out in Manila is Sgt. Melvin
Long, Jr., who is one of the guards
at the trials of Japanese war GRIMM
ais now in progress. In response to
the call of the provost marshall for
men over 6 feet tall, Long was one
of seven men chosen from his COM
pany for the assignment. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. E. Long of
Orange township and has been in the
service the past three years, II
motnhs of which have been spent
| overseas.
Perhaps you remember Manuel Car
agol, the Spaniard who was employed
at the Triplett plant seven years ago.
Well, Manuel dropped in town the
other day for a few hours. There's
been lot of things happened since
he left here-he went to Spain after
the revolution and returned to this
country. And he's married-it was
by proxy-he in this country and
his bride-elect in Spain-his brother
took his place for the ceremony. Lat
er his wife came to America and now
they are living in Caldwell, New Jer-
sey.
Speaking of early Thanksgiving
dinners-there was one Sunday at the
Howard Beery home for the family
of the late Joshua Beery. 1t was
held early because Mrs. Lola Hartz-
ler and her sister, Miss Jennie Beery
who were visiting here will be at the
formers home in Denver on Thanks
giving day. : 80
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Names of two former Bluffton peo-
pie, Mrs. Paul Adams and Prof. G. A.
Lehman appeared in adjoining col
ums on the church page in recent
issue of the Youngstown "Vindica-
tor" Mrs. Adams, whose husband is
pastor of a large Lutheran church in
Youngstown, was organist at a union
Lutheran Reformation Festival SER
vice last Sunday night in a public au-
ditorium which drew an estimated at
tendance of over 1000.
Prof. Lehman of Colgate-Rochester
Divinity school, Rochester, N. Y, will
lead the annual sing of the First Bap-
tist Temple in Youngstown on Sun
day morning and evening, November
%. He was formerly director of
Bluffton department of music.
And on the air will be heard an
other former resident, Rev. Payson
Miller, Unitarian minister at Hart
ford, Conn. will be heard over the CO.
lumbia network on Sunday morning,
Nov. 25 from 10 to 10:30 Eastern
standard time as the speaker on The
| Church of the Air thru facilities OF
| Station WDRC in Hartford, Rev
Miller was on the Bluffton college
faculty from 1921 to 1924. His wife
is the former Cleora Basinger, dau-
ghter for Mr.. and Mrs. Nahum Ba.
singer of South Main street.
That quaint hand operated vacuum
sweeper exhibited in the News win
dow this week by George Carmack il
predecessor of the present day cleo
trically powered sweeper. And it was
quite the thing in its day-some forty
years ago, when it was one of the
fastest moving items carried by the
late H. L. Messer, father of Mrs
Carmack who operated a large drug
store and general merchandising es-
tablishment at Wayne. Without a
motor, the suction was produced by
pushing the sweeper over the floor,
similar to carpet sweeper An early
model pencil sharpener from the Mes
ser store is also exhibited by Carmack
in the News window.
And speaking of window exhibits
if you didn't get down to the Army's
big air show at Dayton last month,
you can get a good view of some OF
the highlights in the picture exhibited
in the News window. Photographs
were taken by Cliff Elliott of ElIiott's
studio on West Kibler street. The
collection includes some of the new
rocket planes as well as Nazi planes
and Jap suicide jobs.
II Francis Basinger, ID. DIS