The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-09-11

MISS Alice Ludwig. s.
DR.. and Mrs. j. J. Suffer of Lake
side, were weekend guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. A. Stratton and family.
M. M. Murray spent the past week
with his nephew, Dwain Murray, and
family at Ashland, Ohio.
Bob Rowe of Toledo was a Sunday
guest of Richard Jordan of Riley
street.
Eugene Kohler left for Toledo,
thence for Fl. Meade, Nd, where he
is stationed temporarily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Stearns visit
ed with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Moore
and Debby and Roger Moore, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Pugh of
Columbus were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. o. Geiger and family Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Badertscher of
Bloomington, Ind. were dinner guests
of Mrs. Lydia Badertscher and son
Milton Badertscher, Sunday.
Miss Amelia Basinger and Mrs.
W. r. Althaus are taking a motor
trip through Michigan. They expect
to return home the latter part of the
week
Mrs. d. J. Brand is leaving We'd
nesday from Lima to visit her son
Orlando Brand and family in Seattle,
Washington. Mrs. Brand has not
seen her son for eight years.
Mrs. Amos Berlingcourt and Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Berlingcourt of
Mishawaka, Ind, spent Sunday after
noon with Mrs. Linda Felt of Bent
ley road.
Chester Henry of Columbus. spent
the past week with his aunt, Mrs.
Corda Oehrli, on Poplar street. He
made his annual visit to celebrate
his aunt's birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Prinkle of Irwin,
Pa, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Gratz
and M. M. Murray for several DAYS
over the past weekend. Mr.. Prinkle
is a lumber dealer and spends his
winters in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Misses Marilyn Amstutz, June
Hochstettler, Annabelle Slower of
Bluffton, and Ruth Ann Basinger of
Pandora left this week for Omaha,
Neb., where they will attend Grace
Bible Institute.
The Willing Workers Sunday
School Class of the Grace Mennonite
church of Pandora gave Mrs. Chris
Locher, who recently moved to Bluff
ton from Pandora, a housewarmine
last Friday night. Eighteen members
of the class Were present for the
housewarming and pot luck supper.
John Triplehorn, son of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Murray Triplehorn, of South
Main street, flew Sunday from Viii.
low Run airport to Seattle, Washing.
ton. He will be stationed at Port
Lawton and from there will be sent
overseas for duty with the Army in
the Far East command. His parents
and M. NJ. Murray drove him to
Willow Run airport Sunday.
Misses jeanette Basinger and Mir
lam Basinger of Button, Miss Joan
Felt of Beaverdam and Richard Jor-
dan of Riley St., Bluffton, returned
home Sunday after spending the
weekend at the annual fall workshop
of the Northwest Ohio Synodical
Youth Fellowship of the Evangelical
and Reformed church, held at Camp
Pittenger, near McCutchenville Ohio.
Miss Mary Ann Amstutz, who has
been working for the last five years
with the County Social Service De-
partment of Los Angeles, Calf, will
return by plane to that city on Fri
day. Mary Ann has been visiting
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Art
Amstuz during her three-week va
cation.
Maxwell Shatto, his wife Rachel
and their son Eddie, from Phoenix,
Arizona, have been guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Shifferly and the i'm
mediate family for the past week.
Mrs. Shatto is the youngest daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Schifferly. A
supper served in their honor before
they departed, with all the brothers
and sisters and their families pres
ent.
DR.. Harvey r. Basinger, Mountain
Lake, Mimi, a former resident of
Bluffton, was in town recently to en-
roll his son John Basinger as a
freshman in Bluffton college. John
will follow his fathers footsteps in
medicine. DR.. Basinger left here to
attend International College of Sur
geons, Stevens Hotel, Chicago, iii.
Miss Katherine Eymann, Omaha,
Neb., was a Labor Day weekend
guest of Miss Mabel Amstutz and
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Amstutz of
Pandora and Mrs. d. E. Reid, Lima.
Miss Eymann, who had spent summer
months in Europe, was enroute home
from Germany where she visited her
father, ]. C. Eymann. She also at
tended the Mennonite World Confer
ence in Basil, Switzerland.
Nh. and Mrs. Richard Mericle en-
tertained August 81 in honor of the
50th birthday of her mother, Mrs.
Lillian Dunifon. Guests who attend
ed were Mr.. and Mrs. C. T. Quick,
Chicago, ILL.,; Mr.. and Mrs. E. F.