The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-06-13

way and splashing at the Buckeye
hitting its stride as the mercury
mounts and summer is officially
due for its debut next week.
And it's June-the month of
brides-and honeymoons-and house
hunting which adds lot of
problems which the older generation
never had to meet s. but youth is
optimistic-and adventurous despite
mounting complexities of a world in
turmoil and so long as a girl mixes
health with a sense of humor, tooth
paste with tolerance, pressure cook
ers with patience, perfume with
grammar, she'll knock some lad wit
less-and her generation will reach
its quota of wedding bells, nurseries
and mortgages, softening finally in
to a mood of singing about Grand
mas sweet little Alice blue jeans.
The George Hubers are another
addition to Buttons Rio Grande
colony, Texas. They are leaving on
June 25, according to present plans
and will be located near the mouth
of the river, some 35 miles from the
Gulf. George has bought tract of
land there for orange raising.
The Franklin Farnsworth who
have been making their home with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Millen
Geiger left Monday for Laramie,
Wyoming, where he will study
engineering at the state university.
Their home will be an unusually
complete trailer where the couple
and their young daughter expect to
live for the next two years. The
trailer has attracted much attention
here and a guest book of those in
specting the quarters is well filled.
And to continue our travelogue,
there are the Alvin Whislers of
Oceanside, California former local
residents who are spending two
months with relatives and friends
in the Rockport and Bluffton areas.
They left California last October
and made a motor tour thru the
south and east spending some time
in Florida and Maine before arriving
in Ohio.
Just to add a homelike touch to
his vacation, 1t. Ropp Triplett
overseas with the Army telephoned
to his mother, Mrs. r. L. Triplett
while he was enjoying a leave in
Switzerland last week. Stationed in
Paris, he was spending seven days
leave seeing the Swiss mountains.
His brother, 1t. Morris Triplett is
in Vienna. Both are in the Army
Signal Corps.
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Miss Marjorie Lehman has enroll.
ed in the Yale Graduate School of
Nursing, it was learned here this
week. She is the daughter of Mrs
Carol Lehman of Geneseo, N. Y.
and the late DR.. C. o. Lehman, both
Bluffton college graduates. Mrs
Lehman is the daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Betzner, former
residents here.
Graduating from Bowling Green
State university on Friday of next
week is Harry Hostetler, known to
many Bluffton people who for the
past 81 years has been working to-
ward a diploma.
Hostetler, a nephew of Eli Hostel
tier of the Citizens bank, is the son
of Mrs. Chris Basingers of Col
Grove and the late Amos Hostetler
He was born on the former Amos
Moser farm, now the Herr farm
north of Beaverdam, 56 years ago
and entered the Bowling Green
school in 1915.
He had been graduated from Pan
dora high school five years before
and in the meantime was married
A baby daughter was born when he
was a freshman. After two years
in college he took teaching job al
Mansfield and continued to study in
summer school.
In the meantime he put three
children thru public school and col.
lege and worked as a carpenter
part-time to pay for it. He says il
has been a long road to get 9
degree but he has had a lot OF
pleasure from extra a-curricular activ.
ity along the way.