The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1946-09-12

s. and the Lloyd Murrays of South
Main street will have been married
81 years on Sunday-by the way
Lloyd is Bluffton's oldest native
born resident.
John A. Diller of North Jackson
street just back from a trip to Cam
ada says he got the surprise of his
life when he read lone democrat
among the items to be auctioned off
at a public sale near Kitchener, On
tario. Inquiry brought to light that
it was a colloquial term referring
to a top buggy. John said some of
the natives were surprised that he
had never heard of the term.
That stalk of yellow bantam va
riety sweet corn in the Farm Bu-
reau store window came from a
stand planted May % on the w. H.
Kidd farm six miles south of town
on Bentley road which produced
roasting ears August 10. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kidd observed their 51st we'd
ding anniversary Saturday and they
have lived on their present farm,
the Kidd homestead, since 1913.
Comes in the mail a letter of
greeting from Bert Schifferly, a
longtime reader of the Bluffton
News renewing his subscription for
the coming year. Bert, former
Bluffton man, is living in Bromley,
KY, near Cincinnati.
While Stanley Hofstetter attends
Bluffton college as a junior this
year his wife, the former Iona Ger
Der who was graduated last spring,
will teach the fifth grade in the
Pandora schools. The couple neatly
solved the housing problem by set
Ting in one of the trailers in Beav-
er village near the College football
field. Mrs. Hofstetter is committing
to Pandora on school days. Both
she and her husband are from Dal-
ton, Wayne county.
Fall this year will be about four
weeks later than usual, so say the
boys who interpret the signs in terms
of weather. First, they'll tell you
that woolly worms are just coming
out and muskrats now are just be-
ginning to dig their holes; also
water snakes are just beginning to
produce their offspring and frogs
have just started spawning. These
average about a month later than
usual, say the forecasters, which
will make fall just about that much
behind schedule, they claim.
Good news for that sweet tooth,
Bluffton dealers have gotten the
word that there will be more candy
this fall and winter as the result
of recent allotment of Cuban sug-
ar. The principal increase will be
in hard candy, it is reported.
Allen Beeshy, erstwhile Bluffton
carpenter and gardener in town
Monday. Allen sold his Riley street
property. here and bought 21 acres
on Route 81 near Roundhead where
he. has developed fiourishing truck
gardening business with Kenton, 10
miles away providing ready mark
ct for everything he can raise. He
uses two acres for gardening, has
the other 10 acres in pasture for a
herd of milk cows and in his spare
time does odd carpenter jobs for
the neighbors.
You will read in another column
that w. j. Luginbuhl west of Bluff
ton, has been teacher of class in
the Ebenezer Mennonite Sunday
school for nearly 27 years-a note
worthy record of unselfish service.
Only too often the years of effort
of that devoted group of men and
women, teachers in the Sunday
schools of our community go little
noticed or appreciated.
This column feels that they are
at least deserving of recognition
and we will be glad to publish the
name, Sunday school and length of
service of the longtime teachers in
this area. Many of them are too
modest to tell us, so we will have to
depend upon members of their class
es or friends to send in this infor-
nation. Address information to the
Bluffton News, care of this column.