The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-04-25

! unable to get new supply to match
what he had previously obtained, he
| bought whatever colors were avail
able and a resourceful bricklayer did
the rest, working them up in designs
all except one long purple brick
which didn't fit into any color scheme
SO it went into the wall way up
near the top.
Henry Gratz living south of town
on the Dixie is another member of
the News 90 year subscribers club
but there's more to the story than
that. His father, David Gratz was
one of the original subscribers when
the News was founded by the late
N. w. "Dick" Cunningham II years
ago and it has been in the family
ever since.
r. L. ingalls,, Sr., prominent Birm-
ingham, Alabama, industrialist, pro-
ducer of the first Diesel-electric loco
motive ever built in the south is a
native of the village of Huntsville,
Logan county hamlet and a former
student at Ohio Northern in Ada.
The locomotive was built at his ship
yard at Pascagoula, Miss. Other
ingalls, companies include the Ingalls,
Iron Works Co., with headquarters
and two fabricating plants in Birm-
ingham and another plant for fabri-
eating steel in Pittsburgh.
And Reed Winegardner of Wash
ington, C. H., running for the Demo-
cratic nomination for attorney gem
eral of Ohio at the primary election
on May is native of Harrod in
Allen county.
A. c. Schultz, former pastor of
the Ebenezer Mennonite church, now
teaching in Northern Baptist Sem
mary, Chicago, will conduct two
months summer cruise to the Holy
Land as soon as travel conditions
permit. The former Bluffton min
lister has travelled extensively in that
region before the war while en-
gagged in archaeological research.
Last Thursday was the birthday
anniversary of 1t. Dwight Diller
now stationed at Frankfort on Main,
Germany, and to make the day out
standing he talked by telephone with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Diller on Spring street. The trans
Atlantic connection was good and
his voice came thru remarkably
clear. Dwight, former high school
athletic coach here has been overseas
for nearly two years. He is orien-
tation officer, connected with the i'm
formation and education department
of the American occupation forces in
Frankfort where he is with the head
quarters staff in a former office
building of the German dye trust.
Kermit Kibele and Don Corson,
former Bluffton boys are also in that
vicinity. Diller in collaboration
with another American officer re-
Gently published for the Army an
so page guide book illustrated in
colors of points of interest in Frank
fort. The telephone conversation
last Thursday was his third trans
Atlantic call, having talked with his
wife, the former Hannah Swank, on
two previous occasions.
Congratulations to Richland grange
which celebrated its Goth birthday
Wednesday. 1t was or
ganized April "a, 1919, by Lawrence
Huber who served as its first mast
er. Huber an expert on corn borer
control is now engaged in agricul-
tural research at State College, Pa.
The grange has an active member
ship of more than 60. Charter mem
bers include Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Huber, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz,
Mr.. and Mrs. Orton Stratton, Mrs.
Will Hilty, Mrs. I. NJ. Jennings, Mrs.
Amos Moser and Mrs Walter
Eli Deppler who retires next We'd
nesday after 81 years as manager
of the telephone company here is
getting lot of congratulations these
days for his long term of service,
which during wartime he was obliged
to perform singlehanded. One CRATE
full patron even broke into verse
and sent the following to Mainly
Pedsonal:
"All these years you served the
people,
Some were patient, some were not;
When he phoned you for REPAYMENT
You were always on the dot.
AS you go forth to take it easy
You must always be alert
Watch your step on every corner
So that you will not be hurt.
Now we hope that your successor
Will be just as fine as YOU: