The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1951-05-17
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Growing weather-when everything
fourishes, spurred on by a warm
summer sun following drenching
rains last Thursday and Friday
which may have been the three bad
boys" of old Swiss German folklore
which come about the middle of May
when rains, cold snaps and even
frost may occur and strangely
enough it happens about this time
every year ;. more signs of sum-
mer-Tuesday the official opening of
the straw hat season, although straws
are slow in making their appearance
and Lazarus "Santa Claus" Ba-
singer, favorite of Bluffton kiddies,
with new haircut and beard trim :.
baccalaureate Sunday night for high
school graduating seniors and
speaking of the high school, Wade
Bechtol, janitor, is ill with mumps
;. +. and Superintendent Murray pre-
sented school board members with
some of his special tall-growing to-
mato plants about which he tells
tall tales-they will be planted this
week and maybe it will require
ladder to pick the tomatoes :. body
of Mrs. Martha Flick, member of a
pioneer Bluffton family brought here
Tuesday to rest until funeral serv-
ices in her childhood home, the form
er Judge Eaton place, now the Diller
| funeral home Bluffton fishing
getting another boost with a tank
truck load of Lake Erie catfish and
! pickerel dumped in the Buckeye Sun
day evening-Luther Gowiska of Cas-
talia, big time operator, uses net
some 1000 feet long to scoop them
out of the lake.
Iris Melecio, who will be gradu-
| ated in music at Bluffton college this
spring plans to return to her native
| Puerto Rico to teach music in the
public schools. She is the daughter
of Baptist minister, veteran mis-
sionary on that island. Notwith-
standing the handicap of language
difficulty which she encountered here,
she is completing her college course
in five years.
Joe Murray, 13-year-old son of the
Dwain Murrays of Ashland, formerly
of Bluffton, here Sunday with hiS
parents. Joe was stricken with polio
last summer and took treatment in
an Akron hospital until the holidays.
Although still in a wheel chair. he
is making steady improvement. His
19-year-old sister, Sue, also a polio
victim, is in the sanitarium at Warm
Springs, Georgia.
Appearing in the current issue of
Holiday magazine, is a full page
picture of H. ]. Voth, pioneer Men
MONTE farmer of Goessel, Kansas.
The picture is in connection with an
article dealing with progress and
resources of that state
Voth, according to the article, is
one of the last of the original Men
MONTE immigrants from the Russian
Ukraine who settled in Kansas late
in the last century. They brought
with them seed of the Turkey Red
variety of spring wheat which has
brought fame and fortune to Kansas
as a great producer.
Size of Bluffton's high school
graduating class, 26 seniors, one of
the smallest in years, points up in
stark fashion what has happened to
school enrolment here in the past
decade.
Loss of territory, together with
smaller families has dropped Bluffton
from one of the largest to one of the
smallest high schools in this area
with a total of 1913 pupils in the
four upper classes. In comparison
with Bluffton's graduating class, the
newly consolidated Mt. CoryRawson
school will graduate class of 48.
In Allen county, Elida, Shawnee,
Spencerville and Lafayette top Bluff
ton in enrolment; also Ada and Co
lumbus Grove, outside the county.
Harrod's total attendance is nearly
equal to that of Bluffton.
Buttons continued participation
in Class A athletics is hangover
from the lush days of 1927 to 1888
when conditions were vastly differ
ent and growing attendance from
an expanding territory brought the
school within few pupils of quail