The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1949-07-07

SaoSSl - the IhdS. ieISci iSoiaSiiSSs
now the Leon Hauensteln home,
and Andrew Hauenstein's drug store
on the corner, now the MobIioil
filling station. The exhibit was spon-
sored by the Boss Mfg. Co., and dis
played in OILERS Insurance window.
Those covered wagons in Saturday
nights parade held personal IN
terest for David Lugibihl of Pan
dora who drove one of them 46
years ago out west when ne was
employed by a vegetable and fruit
farm near Emmett, Idaho, some 81
miles from Boise the state capital.
1t was his job to drive a covered
wagon, similar to those used by
the 49-ers to deliver produce to
mining camps and town III that
area.
Whiskers - the real thing - not
those grown impromptu fashion for
the '49-er celebration, were IN Bluff
ton last week. 1t was really fne
and luxuriant crop, bushy, black,
and worn as permanent facial
adornment by A. Singh Gill Of Pun
jab, India, here as guest of Prot.
H. d. Raid of Rluffton college. The
visitor from India happened along
last Friday evening just as some
of the be-whiskered local men were
lining up to have their pictures tax
en- on Main street. He was invited
to join the group which he did
wearing his native yellow turban
which gave bright dash of color
to the ensemble.
The cause of music in Blutfton has
suffered a distinct loss in the death
of Sidney Hauenstein-an accomp-
lished musician in his own right,
he gave unselfshly to the training
of Bluffton young people in an ap-
probation of better music. The
good which he has accomplished will
remain as an eloquent memorial to
his lifework.
Just 72 days from the time the
seed was planted, Sidney Stettler
and his sister, Mr. S. Inez Neuensch-
wander of South Lawn avenue had
roasting ears on their table last
Friday So far as we know this is
the first homegrown sweet corn in
the Bluffton district. The corn was
of the Spancross variety which has
proved a successful yielder for a
number of years for Stettler who
raises fourishing garden as a
pleasant and profitable hobby.
One day late, the w. o. Geigers
had roasting ears last Saturday.
Albert Augsburgers were third
with roasting ears home grown, on
the Fourth of July.
The Bluffton Saddle club which
was the sparkplug of Monday
nights big rodeo on Harmon field is
an illustration of the old saying
that big oaks grow from small
acorns Looking over the crowd
which gathered here for the Fourth
of July event, we recalled six years
ago when Ray Patterson, former
Rluffton barber and horse fancier
now living in Findlay inserted a
small notice in the Bluffton News
calling a meeting of all those who
might be interested in the forma-
ton of saddle club. From that
meeting grew the present organiza-
tion of the Bluffton Saddle club.
How farm land values have grown
in the Blutfton district was revealed
in connection with an old deed ex-
hibited in the Bluffton News win
dow by S. S. Bixel. Dated in 1885,
the deed was for the purchase of so
acres from the government for what
was later known as the old Bucher
farm some six miles northwest of
Bluffton. The price was $1.25 an
acre. Thirty years ago Bixel pur-
chased the same 80 acres for S340
an acre. The farm is now occupied
by his son Pharis Bixel.