The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-01-31


where he was unable to gain en-
| trance. He has since resumed his
former position as superintendent of
the Elida schools where he previous
ly was connected with the schools
for number of years.
A lot of Bluffton people who
learned the art of buttermaking in
the old days back on the farm are
cashing in now by making their own
butter in these days of scarcity.
Heavy cream is obtainable and it's
really surprising how many Bluffton
housewives are governing it into but
ter.
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Ross Bogart who is wintering
down in Bradenton, Florida, thought
he had a traffic ticket from the po-
lice on his car parked on down.
town street the other day, but he
discovered later it was a note from
Amos Klingler of Orange township
who was driving thru the city and
saw the Bluffton license tag. Amos
who drove down to Miami, Florida,
with his father, George Klingler of
Ada, returned home Tuesday.
And speaking of the sunny south
comes word from Mrs. Adolph Lee
of Odem, deep in the heart of Texas,
that their district is busy these days
supplying the market with fresh
spinach and cabbage. Some of the
farmers there shipped radishes to
the northern cities in December.
And from the G. w. Benroths of
Vivian, La, comes a newspaper
photo of their county seat, Shreve-
port, as it was thirty years ago
when they moved south from Bluff
ton and also as it is today. The
present downtown view of Shreve-
port shows 2 million dollar hotel
and a million dollar movie house;
also the city's First Baptist church
with a membership of over 5000
The pastor, DR.. Dodds, one of the
denominations leaders in the south,
has served the church for more than
30 years and receives $4,000 an
nual salary. Five inches of snow
has been the only touch of winter
thus far, in Vivian, say the Ben
roths.
An ivory letter opener, handiwork
of natives of French West Africa is
both an attractive and useful desk
accessory. 1t was presented to US
by Miss Katherine Gratz, returned
| missionary from that region who is
home on furlough. The natives are
adept at carving ivory from ele-
| phant tusks which they obtain from
the Ivory coast some 500 miles dis
tant, usually making the trip in
trucks and ingeniously fashioning
articles by hand in their huts. Hip
popotamus bone is sometimes used
by the carvers as a substitute for
ivory and palmed off on the un-
wary. However, it may be dis
tinguished from ivory by the fact
that ivory has definite grain while
hippopotamus bone has none.
And natives back in the African
bush have developed tooth brush
from soft but tough wood. A foot
long stick of this wood with a splin-
tered end in place of bristles serves
the purpose admirably, Miss Gratz
said and she displayed one of the
curios. However, they apparently
never heard of Amos n Andy, SO
they have to get along without
toothpaste.
Comes word from the Rev. Elmer
Basinger of supperfeld, H., form
erly of Bluffton that their youngest
son Carlus was recently chosen min
lister of the First Congregational
church at Port Washington, Wiscon-
sin, while working on his Ph. .. de-
gree at Chicago Theological semin-
airy. He received his Masters de-
gree from the University of Chi
cago last year.
Rev. A. S. Bechtel, who attended
Bluffton college a number of years
ago has also moved to Summerfeld
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