The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-06-26

grapher who made a pictorial record
of the talent program were busy Sun
day afternoon and evening in re-
sponse to newspaper and magazine
telephone calls.
Moreover the project was an out
standing example of community CO.
encouragement to the 1S6
members of the congregation who
. undertook to raise $4,000 in 20 weeks
came from many sources outside the
church membership including sub
stantial aid from local merchants who
cooperated in furnishing hard to get
items for the talent-sponsored COM
munity auction last month and early
Sunday morning came $50 from
Charlie Hankish, whose confectionery
store is across the street opposite the
church.
Surprising the number of new
dwellings that have been going up on
West Elm street recently-the north
side is built almost solid from Spring
street west to the corporation line at
the College road intersection. Center
of the most recent activity is that
section between Little Riley creek
bridge and the bend in the road at
the top of hill.
However neither in this nor other
recently built-up districts such as
East Jefferson street, Harmon road
or West Kibler street has there been
any movement to build sidewalks.
Town councilmen say there have been
no petitions for sidewalks since the
/ close Of the war-the reason may be
due to high construction costs to-
sether with improved asphalt sur
face roads which serve pedestrians
and motor traffic equally well.
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Herbert Marshall of Rockport
grows one of the largest patches"
Of asparagus in the state. 1t consists
Of a 80 acre tract on his 900 acre
farm in the Scioto marsh near Alger.
Besides the so acres an additional
tract of 35 acres will be in asparagus
production next spring. Marshall's
farm consists of 600 acres of marsh
and 800 acres of general farming
land with his son Junior as super
visor. Despite wet weather this years
crops are all planted Fifteen fami-
lies are on the farm the year round
with added help during harvest.
Other crops this year besides aspara-
gus include 135 acres of potatoes, 100
acres double cross hybrid corn, 25
acres single cross hybrid corn, 25
acres onions, in addition to wheat,
oats, hay and garden truck.
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Something new has been added in
wedding trips-Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Winkler, married at Ada last Satur-
day are honeymooning in a funeral
car enroute to Texas. Winkler, en-
ployed by the Superior Coach COM
pany of Lima had one of their new
jobs to be delivered to an undertaken
in Houston so he took with him his
bride, the former Helen May Agin.
They expect to reach their destination
the last of this week and return home
by train.
And speaking of something new,
there's the Geiger laboratories recent
ly opened in Minneapolis, the only
one of its kind in that city for con-
troll and research in chemical, bac-
THEOLOGICAL and pharmaceutical fields
operated by |. w. Geiger and his son
James. Oldtimers will remember /.
w, former Bluffton high school prin-
eipal and brother of Memo, who later
taught for 80 years in the University
of Minnesota where he is now pro-
fessor-emeritus in the department of
chemistry. James was formerly head
of psychological production of the
Squibb & Sons laboratory in New
Jersey.
The Geigers are a scientifically
minded family-their eldest son
Frederick is division chief in the
| Cornell Institute of Aerodynamics at
Buffalo. Of the other sons, Robert
who was married in Mishawaka, Ind
last Saturday is graduate student
in chemistry in the University Of
Minnesota and Richard the youngest
is junior in the school of Technolo-
gy. Their daughter, Mrs. Betty Lou
Farrell and son spent the past winter
in Lind, Wash, while her physician
husband is assigned to duty in an
Army hospital in Manila.
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