The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1948-04-08

Don Robinson, Bluffton college stu
dent and ex G. l., combines business
and studies, cleaning neat income
thereby. Don, experienced in lands
cape gardening, tree trimming and
care of lawns and fiowerbeds has
organized a crew of 6 students in
tevested in this work and seeking an
income to meet their own college ex-
penses. Don says all hands are busy
as beavers and he could use double
his force if he had time to supervise
that volume of business
There are q lot of questions which
Bluffton has not settled, but the mat
ter of slow or fast time is not one
of them-with April Is the time
when a number of Ohio municipali-
ties switch to fast time for the sum-
mer, the question hasn't been men,
toned officially here this spring.
Several years ago it was hot is
sue-however, as far as Bluffton is
concerned it looks like slow time is
here to stay. Among cities going
on fast or Daylight Saving from
April "a to September 25 are Cleve-
land, Ashland, Sandusky, Oberlin,
Detroit and Monroe, Michigan.
Aldine Kohl, Bluffton coin collect
or, won first place in the curio and
relics division of the annual hobby
show at Findlay, Saturday and Sun
day. His exhibit consists of more
than 1000 different United States
coins ranging from half-cent to 81.
Some folks hunt houses-others
have houses forced upon them-one
of the latter is Earl Dean Lugin-
buhl, son of the Gid Luginbuhls who
graduates from theological seminary
this spring and is taking his first
pastorate at Wheatland, Ind, where
he occupies the parsonage sizable
residence, more than his present
needs, which he is fitting up for
bachelor quarters.
Maynard, son of the Lee Coons,
who is school superintendent at
Milestone, near Bucyrus, recently
| got into print as sighting the first
deer of the season in Crawford
county this season-a doe and young
fawn. Deer are seen each spring
and summer along the Sandusky riv-
er east of Bucyrus.
Speaking of family gatherings
| there was a sizabIe number at the
55th wedding anniversary of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Wilkins last week. Pres
ent were 13 children, 80 grandchild-
rem and Is great grandchildren, not
counting the in-laws of which there
were II sons and daughters, to-
gether with S grandsons and grand
daughters.
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Sandra, 10-year-old daughter of
the Jack Berrys, pupil in the 5th
grade carries ON correspondence with
"pen pals" A member of the Meth
odist Sunday school class taught by
Mrs. Ruth Steinman, Sandra sent
her name to the pen pal column of
Sunday school paper for juniors
and received a veritable deluge of
81 replies which she is busy answer
ing
A station wagon that flies-that's
the latest addition this week at
Bluffton's airport. It's a plane for
general utility purposes much like
those you see on the highways, ex-
cept that it has wings instead of
wheels. 1t carries four passengers.
Travelogues-The GayIon Thomas
es, who went west last month locat-
ed at Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he
is employed at lumber concern
the Willis Althauses who spent the
winter way down in southern Flor
ida for benefit of his health are
moving to the northern part of that
state as hot weather appears =.
the Elmer Romeys expected back
from a Florida sojourn soon q.
and from Mrs. Florence Highland
Murphy of an old Bluffton family,
now living in haywood, Calf, comes
word that the past winter season has
been most pleasant albeit more rain
would have been welcome. Her
father, David Highland makes his
home with her and still enjoys good
health, at an advanced age. The
family formerly lived on South Lawn
avenue in what is now the Amiel
Amstutz property.