The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-07-17

gasped that strange man had come
into their house while their parents
were gone and was eating their
supper on the kitchen table.
Moser notified the sheriff at Find
| lay and two deputies arrived to ar
rest a man who gave his name as
John Louttit, 30, of New York city
who said he was "on his way west
looking for work"
Residents of that neighborhood
said he had stopped at every home
between Moser's residence and the
county line asking to stay all night.
Two. former Bluffton men are on
the summer school faculty of Arizona
State college at Tempe, Arizona.
They are DR.. Harvey L. Eby, Bluff
ton area native, formerly of the
faculty of the department of educa-
ton at University of California, Los
Angeles, who has been teaching in
the Arizona college since last fall
and DR.. Samuel Burkhard, professor
, of education in Bluffton college from
1919 to 1921, now chairman of that
department in the Arizona school.
Gid Luginbuhl, So, spot welder at
the Triplett plant just back from his
two weeks vacation is telling the
boys about his trip to Indianapolis
which he made on bicycle, covering
the 160 mile distance in 16 hours.
Gid says the roads were good and
not too crowded and he had no
mechanical or tire trouble enroute.
To get in condition for the trip Gid
took a 80 mile practice jaunt a
short time before.
Novel means of locomotion come
naturally to Gid--a number of
years ago when he was town mar
shal he toyed with the idea of get
ting pair of roller skates to patrol
streets and police elusive roller
skating Bluffton youngsters who
were violating traffic regulations.
It was something long to be
remembered-that first big league
ball game which Brett and Bruce
Triplett saw at Cleveland last Thurs
day night-when Black, Cleveland
Indian pitcher stunned the stands
with a no-hit, no-run game over
Philadelphia in the first game of a
double-header. The boys made the
trip to Cleveland with their father
Norman, together with r. L. and
Cleon Triplett and Woodrow Little.
Reed Hilty, Bluffton native, who
with his wife and daughter from
New York city visited his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hilty, says the
Ohio Society in New York is a live
and up and doing organization with
membership of more than 800
which maintains spacious clubrooms
in the Pennsylvania hotel in that
city with secretary in charge and
the latchstring always out for Ohio
ans.
One of the city's leading min
listers, DR., Norman Peale of the
Marble Collegiate church on Fifth
avenue is a native of Bellefontaine.
His father, Rev. C. G. Peale, retired,
was formerly pastor of the Methodist
church in Findlay and later became
district superintendent of that de-
nomination. He is now in New York
with his son.
Last half of the summer vacation
is here, Tuesday, July 15 marked
the mid-point. So you had better
get started doing those things you
had planned earlier this summer or
you win awake some of these morn
ings to the ringing of the school
bell with your plans unrealized.
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Showers on Tuesday, st. Swithin's
day-which according to old Eiglish
folklore viii set the weather pattern
fox the next forty days. This would
mean u continuation thru wheat
harvest of the rains which plagued
spring corn planting.
The tradition dating back over a
thousand years had its inception
when heavy rains starting July Is
and continuing for forty days frus-
trated plans for the removal of the
body of st. Swithin, bishop of Win
chester, from a grave in an open