The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-11


generous box of oranges sent by her
sister, Mrs. z. v. Bayliss of Bay
Pines, Florida. The fruit was brought
here by the Ross Bogarts who return
ed recently after spending the win
ter in. Bradenton.
Snakes alive-and it was a very
much alive queen snake that got loose
in the high school last Thursday. 1t
all started when Bob Bixel, freshman
brought the reptile to school that
morning and later bartered it to
Donny Kuhn, eighth grader. Just
about that time the snake escaped
from it's uuarters-a shoe box-and
was finally rounded up in the locker
room by Ted Kohl after an exciting
snake hunt and returned to its former
abode in the shoe box.
One of the last remaining vestiges
of the Western Ohio interurban line
disappeared Monday when workmen
removed iron hangers projecting from
the side of the brick building occup-
led by Risser's lunchroom to make
way for the new Carmack theatre
building being erected few feet
away. From the hangers was sus-
pended the trolley line of the cars
as they ran into the switch at the
side of the building which formerly
served as the interurban station. The
trolley line which suspended opera
tions some fifteen years ago was in
its heyday in the early 1900's with
cars running almost every hour pro-
viding Bluffton with its first conve-
nient and popular mode of transpor-
tation later taken over by the auto
mobile and buses.
B Be I'm ing a greatgrandmother
twice within "a hours was the happy
experience of Mrs. Lydia Lora when
a girl was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Sousley and boy to Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Stettler at the hospital re-
Gently. Mrs. Sousley, the former
Treva Hochstettler, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Hochstettler, is a
granddaughter of Mrs. Lora and Mr..
Stettler, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
stettler is a grandson.
Possibility of mosquitoes spreading
malaria brought home by war veter-
ans who contracted the disease while
in service abroad was discussed at a
meeting of biology specialists held in
Columbus last week. Miss M'Della
Moon, head of the Bluffton college
department of biology attended.
Three speakers who touched on the
subject admitted the possibility of
such an occurrence, she said, however
they added that the situation was not
one which should cause undue alarm
as there was little likelihood of an
outbreak of epidemic proportions.
One lone man in a pullman car
filled with British war brides and
their babies was the situation in
which Fred Wenger Unexpectedly
found himself last Friday.
Wenger, a civilian employe of the
Army Air force, boarded train at
Newark, N. J., for an overnight trip
to Columbus, enroute to his home
here for the week end when he found
that all other reservations were as
signed to English wives and babies
who had arrived in New York on the
Queen Mary the preceding day and
were going west to join their G. |.
husbands.
1t was their first experience with
American pullman car service and
the Bluffton man soon found himself
unofficial travel adviser to several
dozen women who piled him with
questions.
A group of IL scheduled to leave
the train at Columbus the next morn
ing at o'clock were fearful that the
porter might forget to call them in