The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-03-10

HeIen barnes now Of FIndiay. she
was a member of Bluffton high
schools first graduating class-1881
when her father was one of the
early Methodist ministers here.
For many years international sec
retary of the Y. w c. A., her
duties carried her to far-off corners
of the world. Six years ago on her
birthday she invited to her home
everyone in Findlay with birthday
IN March and organized them into
a group known as the "Marchers. /"
Her sc years rest lightly on her and
she still maintains keen interest
in people, world events and COM
munity affairs.
And speaking of March celebri-
ties, there's Andrew Jackson "Old
Hickory" the seventh president and
hero and idol of the frontier folk
back in the days when northwestern
Ohio was being rough-hewn from the
wilderness. His birthday comes
next Tuesday-and that of one of
his namesakes - Andrew Jackson
Jack Fisher is one day earlier
next Monday.
| While Bluffton district was en-
] joying one of the mildest winters in
recent years, it was an entirely diff
ferent story out in Dunseith, North
Dakota, where Robert Stratton and
his wife are teaching in an Indian
school. Mail trains showed in-or
out-for five days made postal serv-
ice bit irregular with snow aver
aging over four feet deep. The old
timers out there say that's a lot of
snow, even for North Dakota. How
ever, they don't think the weather
was unusually cold since the temper
ature registered only 35 degrees be-
low zero on several occasions.
On the other side of the picture is
Rarold Carey of the Bluffton airport,
recently back from a flight to Flor
ida where he enjoyed deepsea fish
ing and brought back some of his
catch as evidence of his prowess as
an angler. Carey who made the trip
as pilot for a Lima sportsman is
leaving again soon, this time pilot
ing a plane with three Lima men
who will snatch brief airborne va
cation on the Florida coast.
Sport followers are wishing best
of luck to Hugh Frost, the colored
boy, one of the mainstays of the
Bluffton college football team. Frost
a sophomore, has returned to his
home in Youngstown to recuperate
from a kidney injury sustained dur
ing the season last fall. Because
of his injury he was unable to par
ticipate in basketball, giving up thu
varsity post which he held down las
year. Hard hitting, but with cour
eous good nature and winning smile
that made friends of his opponent!
and won him a big following among
the fans, many there are who arr
hoping for his speedy recovery.
|
| And speaking of Bluffton colleg'
sports, the close of the basketball
season marks the breaking up of tht
Three RS combination which started
IL years ago when Roger Howe
Russ and Rich Gratz were candi
dates for the high school basket
ball team back in 1888. For foul
years the trio worked together
taking Bluffton' into district ant
state competition.
After graduating in 1912 from
high schools they mixed in indus
trial league basketball for a tim,
until called for military service
Back home, the trio entered Blufftol
college in the fall of 1916 wher'
they won berths on the starting
five which they held for the pas
three years Next season will fint
Rich and Russ back on the cour
with Rog in the bleachers-he grad
yates this spring.
1t was just bit of old-time Bluff
ton transplated down in Charleston
West Virginia, when the men
chorus of the Colgate Rochester Di
vinity School of Rochester, N. Y
appeared in Charleston's Baptis
Temple couple of weeks ago. Di
recting the chorus was G. A. dad
Lehman and in the audience wa
none other than A. c. "Arch" Grit
fifth and the latter's sister, Mrs
Lena Griffith Fenimore-all of whom
were in Bluffton college back in tn
early days when the old Lowell Lit
erary society was the principal so
cial and extra curricular activity o