The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-29

| whole story-fact is Millen never
| planted the seed-the vine, a volun-
teer, sprung up from some seeds
thrown on the garden from a water
melon the family had enjoyed last
June and he was as much surprised
as anyone else when the water
melons appeared.
1t created a mild sensation Mon
day morning when the fire truck
sped thru the business district. How
ever there was no occasion for
alarm-it was used at Harmon field
to pump water on the : baseball
diamond preparatory to re-sodding it
for the coming football season.
j. J. Sutter, former Bluffton physi-
clan who later became Allen county
health commissioner and afterward
health commissioner of Wayne coun-
| ty was in town over the week end.
After 48 years in the medical field
he's been fishing up at Lakeside this
| summer. Altho retired, he has fitted
| up an office at his home in Lima for
limited practise.
w. w. Huber, who celebrated his
88th birthday anniversary last week
is one of the few remaining pioneers
of this vicinity who can claim the
distinction of having been born in a
log cabin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Amstutz,
west of Bluffton, are on a motor
trip to Portland, Maine this week
celebrating their twenty-ffth we'd
ding anniversary-and two years ago
they We're out on the Pacific coast
in Portland, Oregon.
Monday night was the payoff for
seven boys of Gene Benroth's teen
| age class in the Presbyterian Sun
day school. The boys were at Clay
ton Bixel's airport to claim the thrill
of an airplane ride which had been
promised them by teacher Gene last
winter for attending Sunday school
for 25 Sundays without missing.
Boys who won rides were James
Badertscher, John Henry Dillman,
Earl Frick, Keith Kirkland, Roger
Linden, and John and Robert War
rem.
We heard the other day about
that trip the Clayton Murrays made
to Denver, Colorado-started from
Bluffton one night at $50 and ar
rived in Denver the following night
at midnight-which is little more
than "a hours for the jaunt of
1900 miles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray and son
John accompanied their brother-in-
law, George Moser of Columbus on
the trip and the two men took turns
at the wheel.
After two weeks they returned
home the first of last week ac-
companied by Mrs. Moser who has
been visiting relatives in Colorado.
The return trip, however, was made
at a more leisurely place, leaving
Denver on Friday morning and ar
irving in Bluffton Sunday afternoon.
Another long cross country trip is
made by Joy Huber who came from
his home at Hackensack, N. j., to
attend the 25th anniversary of the
high school class of 1921 held at
Buckeye lake, Sunday. His wife and
daughter were here with the car and
they left by auto Sunday evening
returning to their home in the east
| You can't tell who is apt to drop
in these days-or perhaps we should
say drop down.. Mrs. Katherine
Urich, who with her daughter Susan
of Washington, D. G. is visiting hel
folks, Mr.. and Mrs. P. P. Badert.
scher south of Bluffton wasn't toe
surprised when she saw a small
Ercoupe plane flying several times
over the house. But she was sur
prised when it landed in her dad:
wheat field and her brother Ralph
emerged. He had been flown home
unannounced, from Anderson, Ind.
| by a friend who owns the plane, fol
surprise visit with his sister.
If you have a good memory ant
are old enough you may recall whel
John Reigle ran a pool room her
some DO years ago, and you may b
interested to know that John i
still active and does a fourishin,
grocery business up at Coolies, Mich
near South Haven and Kalamazoo
in the Michigan fishing district.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Worthingtol
of South Main street together wit
their daughter Mrs. Ralph Loche
and granddaughter Virginia Lyni
Locher of Columbus returned from
weeks fishing trip at Coolies wher
they met Reigle.
Altho of advancing years, tn
former Rlufftnn man is nnusuall1