The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-10-22

The Pandora Fire Department was
called to the Lawerhce Herrmiller
farm Sunday where they quickly
extinguished a brush fire which could
have resulted in serious damage IN
this extremely dry weather.
Bernard Assman died Saturday
afternoon at his home at l08 +.
Terrence Rd. in Colunbus at the
age Of AZ, following lingering
illness of many months. Surviving
are his wife, the former, Carrie
Neuenschwander of this community,
three daughters and three sisters.
Funeral service was held in a Colum-
bus funeral home and burial was IN
the New Mennonite cemetery south
of Pandora.
Mrs. Harold Schumacher entertain
ed the Mary Martha Missionary
Society of the Grace Mennonite
church in her home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Ralph Sommer was in charge
of the program.
Mrs. Llewellan Zimmerly of Orville
was a week end guest IN the Mrs.
Edna Schumacher home. Clair Schu-
macher who is employed in Cleveland
was also a Sunday guest IN his
mothers home.
The Fall Conference of the north
west district of the Ohio Fedora
tion of Newcomers Clubs is meeting
this Thursday October 22 in Bryan
for an all day session. Pandora
Club Newcomers attending the
conference are Mrs. Virginia kempf,
Mrs. Hiram Diller, Mrs. + d n
Diller and Mrs. Ruth Steiner. Mrs.
Kempf, the north west district chair
man of the American Home Depart
ment of the Federation gave a re-
port of the years activities at that
meeting. She has also revealed that
the week of November 10th will be
observed as American Home week,
ending with plans for a Lets Wor-
ship Together" feature for Amerl-
can Family on Sunday November 22.
Pandora Gilboa schools will feature
special MONS Night" at the
football field Thursday evening be-
fore their game with Layafette.
Mothers of the pupils have been in
vited as special guests fof the oc-
casion. IN II y
Pandora-G -Gilboa Rockets scored in
the second and third period Nof their
game with Elida Friday nigffs-~hich
resulted in a 14-7 win for the
Rockets making three out of four.
Coach Gratz is giving his boys some
intensive workouts getting them
ready for the game here Thursday
with Layafette.
Hr. and Mrs. Lester Clymer of
Dayton were visitors at the Rich
ard Armstrong home several days
last week. The Clyrpers are making
plans to spend several months in
Europe. Mrs. Clymer is the former
Margaret Tschudy of this place.
Miss Janet Cox 9f Paulding spent
the week end with friends here and
attended the Pandora-Gilboa- -Elida
game Friday night. Her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Cox and daugh-
ter, visited with friends here Sun
day and Janet returned with them
to their home in Paulding Sunday
evening.
The Pandora Business Mems As
sociation in cooperation with the
Pandora-Gilboa high school senior
class, will SPONSOR their annual
Halloween Parade Saturday, October
81. The Parade will start at pm.
on Main Street and there will be
prizes awarded for, The Best
Dressed, Most comical, Most Orig
inal, and the Best Group. The SEN
iors will be in charge of games and
concessions and in case of rain the
parade and concessions will move
from Main Street to thhe high
school gym.
Miss Mary Lauby in company with
twelve young men and women, all
Hawaiian students of Ft. Wayne
Bible College arrived here Saturday
afternoon and were over Sunday
guests of the Pandora Missionary
church young people who gave their
guests a pot luck supper at the
church Saturday evening. The group
spoke and sang at the regular Sun
day morning service at the Mission
ray Church and were dinner guests