The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-12

week, putting on a prevue witt
slacks, straw hats and first indica
| ton of bathing suits.
Saturday morning was probabl!
the first time in Buttons history
that a motorboat chugged up ant
down Vance street and over int,
| Schmidt's field. The whole area wa:
flooded when Big Riley creek over
flowed its banks Friday night and {
stream of water three feet deer
was flowing across Cherry street
and down Vance to the foot of Elm
street. The boat fitted up with ar
outboard motor belonged to o. c
Hursey & Sons, whose farm imple.
ment store fronts on Vance street
Mondays hot sun melted the tar
surface at the rear of the Paul
Diller funeral home and an unsus-
pecting robin alighting on the thoro-
fare found itself stuck fast in much
the same manner as a fly on sticky
flypaper. The robin houndered in
the tar, trying unsuccessfully to fly
until Floyd Hardwick came along
and liberated the marooned bird.
Hilda Bixel, Bluffton hospital
nurse, literally made a flying trip
to Fortuna, Mo-, last Wednesday to
care for the infant son, David Allen,
born to her sister, Mrs. Magdalenc
Albrecht, wife of Rev. E. A. Albrecht.
She made the trip by plane with
Clayton Bixel of Bluffton Flying
service as pilot. They took off from
the Bluffton airport and two hours
and forty minutes later landed at
st. Louis, not far from Fortuna. It
was her first journey by plane and
she is reported to have enjoyed it
immensely.
And speaking of flying, there's
one man who flies daily to his work
here. He is Harold Carey co-owner
and operator of the Bluffton Flying
service who makes daily trips by
plane from his home near Lima to
the Bluffton airport.
Carey who has Allen county's first
designated private airport takes off
in the morning and makes the Lima
to Bluffton flight in twelve minutes
which ordinarily would require IS
minutes by automobile.
Inclement weather bothers him but
little, for he has been grounded only
10 times since the first of the year.
Carey served three years during
the war as instructor at Carlstrom
field, Arcadia, Florida and holds a
commercial pilots license and
fight instructors rating.
Carey lives on Spencerville road
near Lima with his wife, Jean and
4-year-old daughter Lynnette.
It isn't exactly the latest in foot
wear, but nevertheless it's attracting
attention in the Bluffton News
window pair of sturdy shoes. with
wooden soles found on the old
Gottlieb Frankhauser farm west of
Bluffton by Frank Neuenschwander
who recently purchased the place.
The shoes have stout fabric up
pers stitched to a leather band
which is nailed into the wooden
soles. They are said to have been
brought from Switzerland by Frank
houser who came as youth to, this
country. A wooden fork, similar to
salad fork, said to be of Swiss
make also was found among Frank
houser's effects.
Annetta DeGraaff returning to her
native Holland this summer after a
year as a student in Bluffton, college,
has been bidding goodbye to her
friends the past several days. While
conditions have improved in Holland
since the war, there remains much
to be done, she says. Food still is
far from plentiful and reconditioning
of farm land flooded when the Nazis
opened the dikes, will take time.
The Dutch still remember depreda-
tions suffered at the hands Of the
enemy and greetings on the street
spoken in German win usually go
unanswered, she added.
On the other hand, Americans,
and especially Canadians, are
popular. Tt was the Canadian forces
which largely held the line in Hol-