The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-08-15


school will open in less than three
weeks-with days already getting
shorter and coal haulers busy filling
bins for winter.
Speaking of big potatoes-there
were two exhibited in the News
window the first of the week grown
by John Imbach of Chino, California
and brought here by his niece Lorena
Hochstettler who with Marie Imbach
returned recently from a months
tour of the west. The largest
potatoes weighed two pounds and
measured 101a inches long.
Congratulations to Mrs. Phoebe
Steiner, former Bluffton resident
who will be SO next Tuesday. Mrs.
Steiner, still enjoys good health and
keeps in touch with former friends
thru the Bluffton News. She makes
her home with her daughter, Mrs.
Lula Kohn at Clayton, Mo-, a St.
Louis suburb.
And David Stearns, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Stearns who is in navy
training says he reads the Bluffton
News nowadays from cover to cover.
The Button News window which
serves as a community clearing
house for lost and found articles
was the means by which one dis
tracted resident of the Pandora
district last week found the key to
his safety deposit box. The key was
one of several on ring, found on
the street here. It's good idea to
have duplicate keys to your safety
box at the bank
Mrs. Arthur Schyllander, the form
er Alice Santschi, and her husband
are moving shortly from Toledo to
home they have built at Morris
Point, Erie, Michigan.
A feature of the triennial Schu-
macher reunion held at the College
campus here last Sunday was dis
play of family relics and antiques.
The exhibit attracted much attention
and a similar project could well be
inaugurated by other reunions. We
think it's a splendid idea.
How does your garden grow? Ask
that question to four Bluffton men
who have developed an irrigation
system and they'll tell you that
everything is doing, fine. The gard
eners are Jack Berry, Forrest Num-
ma, Homer Groves and Edgar Root
who have developed gardens in a
tract Of some two and onehalf acres
at the rear of their lots between
North Mound street and the Nickel
Plate railroad.
Lines of galvanized pipe with taps
at frequent intervals solve the prob
lem of water for growing crops
which include beans, sweet corn,
potatoes, cabbage and other garden
truck, and they will tell you that the
returns amply justify the time and
effort expended.
The tract bought from N. P.
Steiner by Berry several years ago
and later subdivided into five parts
now owned by the four men and
R. A. Shumaker.
John Martin, who will take over
the music instruction in the high and
grade schools is a former G. /. who
led an Army band overseas. He is
a graduate of the music department
of Ohio State university, specializes
in clarinet, married and has one Is
months old child. He was here over
the week end seeking, unsuccess-
fully, for a place to live. His home
is in Wellston-where Fred Gettles
of the News used to live-also
Martin had as an instructor in
Wellston high school, Philip Dye,
husband of the former Esta Lugibill
of Bluffton.
A twelve hour trip by plane from
Ohio to California was made Satur-
day night by Mrs. Bernadine Van
Vlack and her IL months old son
Herbert who returned to their home
in Downey, Calf, after having been
called here several weeks ago because
of the death of the formers mother,
Mrs. Gladys Garlinger Kaltenbach.
Mrs. Van Vlack and son boarded a
plane at Dayton, Saturday evening at