The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-23
onecrust pies.

one-crust pies.
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So you think the housing situa-
ton in Bluffton is tight-we did too,
until the other day when we got to
talking to a hitch-hiking couple en-
route from Detroit back to their old
home in Nashville, Tennessee. Their
housing" in Detroit consisted of a
6 by 9 room, in addition to which
there was kitchen and bathroom
which they shared with two other
tenants-for all of which they paid
$50 a month.
Word from the James. Wengers
now in Salem, Oregon, where Jim
is enrolled in Willamette university
physical education department get
ting ready for an athletic coaching
career and his wife, the former
Mary Jean Siefeld has a clerical po-
sition in the department of motor
vehicles in that city. His parents,
Mr.. and Mrs .Wilbert Wenger, form
erly of near Pandora also live in
the city.
Elizabeth Moser, Bluffton native
and sister of Ezra, north of Bluff
ton who is now in Beirut, Lebanon,
Syria, head of the American uni
versity hospitals school is located
only twenty miles from the old home
of Charles Hankish, Bluffton con-
fectioner. Charlie says he knows
that entire region well and has rel
atives in Beirut. There has been
none of the disturbance in that re-
gion which has beset Palestine in
the Jew-Arab conflict for the past
summer.
Two former Blufftonites are prom
inent in the Community Chest drive
now under way in Columbus. They
are Mrs. Edwin Stauffef, the form
er Opal Berry, who is chairman OF
the north residential division in that
city and her co-chairman, Mrs. John
Ramseyer, the former Zoa Manges
Mrs. Stauffer is prominent in Co.
lumbus music circles formerly with
, the Broad Street Methodist church
choir and now member of the St
Paul's Episcopal church choir. Her
husband formerly of Bluffton col
lege, teaches at Columbus South
High. Mrs. Ramseyer's husband
also a Bluffton college graduate is
principal of University high school
Growing of the queen at Bluff
ton college homecoming Saturday
morning will carry with it an added
angle of interest for the oldtimers
since by some strange quirk of fats
the queen and each of her three at
| tendants are second generation OF
otherwise intimately connected with
former students.
The queen, Alice Locher, is sis
ter of Eula Locher, former home
! coming queen at the college. Tht
sisters are daughters of Chris Loeb
er northwest of Bluffton.
Barbara Springer, one of the at
tendants is a daughter of Witty o
Berne, former student and loya
Bluffton college supporter-just j
case you don't know your wa
around too well, you may have nc
ticed the name of Clifton r
Springer as a member of the boar
of trustees-that's Witty,
Then there's Joan McCarty o
Waynesfeld, another of the attend
ants-she is a sister of Dolores
erstwhile Bluffton May Queen. TIL
third attendant, Harriet Schertz o
Metamora, H., is the daughter o
Esther Strubhar Schertz, forme
Bluffton student.
To Bluffton householders an
youngsters:
The halloween season this yea
brings with it potential possibilitie
of tragedy. Following reports of &C
tivities of Peeping Tom in the res
idential districts some householder
are reported to have loaded shotgun
ready to give the intruder a war;
reception.
| To the householders-a word o
caution-remember especially at thi
! time it is wise to go slow with fire
arms.
To the youngsters word of eau