The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-06-30

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Grange youths at Gilboa Grange hall
Pandora, Pleasant, Sharon, Leipsic
Belmore and Gilboa were represented
A basket lunch followed the program
DIR. and Mrs. R. K. Steiner and
children Michael Richard II, Terry
and Toni Lyn of Huntington, w. Va.
visited their parents, Mr.. and Mrs
{. d. Steiner over the week end.
Mrs. William Risser of New Lon
don, who has been visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Aaron Hilty and family west
of Pandora, is visiting her son David
Risser and family at Bluffton.
Mrs. Magdalene Corson Wilson is
! home from Dayton on vacation until
after the 4th. Mrs. Wilson is a nurse
at the Veterans hospital. Last week
she visited her brother and wife,
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Corson at Bluffton
several days.
Mrs. Wilson gave party Satur-
day evening at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Corson, Bluffton, in honor
of her son, Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton
Wilson. Mr.. Wilson is working on a
| plan for the Mennonite Old People s
| Home to be erected near Bluffton.
| The plans will be shown at the Grace
MENNONITE church in Pandora, Sun
day.
Mrs. Charles Hodge of Philadel-
phIa, who has been visiting her
/ daughter, Mrs. Louis Riser and
family west of Pandora, left Monday
by plane from Columbus for New
Franklin, Mo-, to visit relatives. Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Riser took Mrs.
Hodge to Columbus and then spent
the day with the Glen Swartz and
Lenny Roudebush families near Co
lumbus. Mrs. William Basinger, sister
of Mr.. Riser, who had been visiting
| the above named families returned
home with them to her home near
Columbus Grove.
The wedding of Miss Mary Ann
Bridenbach, Pandora, to Mr.. James
Neu of Col. Grove, will be held at
the st. Johns Mennonite church east
of Pandora, Saturday evening, July
2, at 7:30 p. m. Open church will be
| observed.
| Members of the Methodist church
held reception and supper at the
church Sunday evening honoring their
new pastor and wife, Rev. and Mrs.
Warren Powell of Sherwood. A short
program was given after the supper.
The Van Meter families had a
family reunion at the school cafe
terra last Sunday. The Sets and
Harkness families held their reunion
also that day at the park shelter
house at noon.
st. Johns Mennonite church is hold
ing picnic supper at the Pandora
park the evening Of the 4th.
| Mrs. Kenneth Turcotte and daugh.
ter of Chicago, H., is visiting he,
parents, Rev. and Mrs. G. A. Jacob.
son.
| Miss Ellen Risser is in camp near
Defiance, o., where she is acting as
a unit leader for a Girl Scouts camr
for the summer.
| Mrs. Robert Stollberg and daugh-
ters who had been spending several
weeks here with her mother, Mrs
Virginia Davis, have returned to
North Lafayette, Ind, where he1
husband DR.. Stollberg is an in
structor at Purdue University. He
will retire from teaching at that in.
stitution in August, and the family
will go to San Francisco, Calf, tc
live, DR.. Stollberg becoming one OF
the faculty members of the Univers-
ity of San Francisco.
Mrs. Glen Ewing has been visiting
her son John Ewing and family at
| Wanetka, Indiana.
All CLUB OUTING
The following members of the
Ladder Climbers All club of Pan
dora spent last week at Camp Palm
er located on the banks of Harri-
son Lake in Fulton county.
Misses Barbara Hilty, Janet Stein
er, MARCEL BURY, Marilyn Benton,
Roiene Cherry, Mary NJ. Zuercher,
Marlene Lugibihl and Phyllis Bad
ertscher.
This is busy and happy center
of activity for the campers from
early morn until late at night.
Campers are aroused at Gas a. m.,
attend flag raising at 1926 a. M,
and then eat their breakfast, then
prepare their tents for inspection
from $3.50 to 9 a. m. At 9 a. m.
classes are held on crafts, nature
study, camp fire planning, vespers
and swimming.
Field trips and recreational per-
lods are given in the morning with
swimming in Lake Harrison. The
supper hour is at $50 followed by
recreational period such as horse
shoes, archery, soft ball, badminton
or volley ball. Vespers at 7:30
p. m. and campfire period at $3.50.
Then off to bed at 10 p. m.
| The camp site and buildings are
located in a nice shady grove which
makes the camp cool place to be
on hot summer day.