The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1953-05-28

| The annual two week period OF
Daily Vacation Bible school began
Monday morning with the following
corps of teachers as representing the
various participating churches: Mrs
Raymond Miller and Mrs. Clarence
Schneck from st. John church; Mrs.
Laurel Bracy and daughter Ruth
Bracy from the Methodist church;
Mrs. Edna Lauby and Mrs. Lowell
Hatfield from the Missionary church
and Mrs. Stella Geiger and Mrs. Rus
sell Welty from Grace Mennonite
church.
A group of ladies from Pandora
and Riley Creek Methodist churches
attended the Defiance District w. S.
c. S. Spring Conference in session,
Tuesday at the Van Vert Methodist
church. Among those who attended
the meeting were Mrs. Raymond
Bucher, president of local w. S. C. S.
Mrs. Richard Frantz, Mrs. Lester
Dorman, Mrs. Warren R. Powell and
Miss Inez McAdams.
Mrs. Adrain Eek entertained mem
bers of the Bi-Centennial club at a
Hobo Breakfast party in her home at
Sis a. m. Wednesday, May 27. Priz-
es were awarded for the one dressed
most like the hobo fashion; also for
the best reason, if any, for being a
hobo.
DR.. Adam P Basinger of Blanches-
| ter was a guest in the home of his
sister, Miss Sarah Basinger last week
and also attended commencement ac-
tivities at the school, Wednesday
evening.
Miss Wilma Augsburger and a
classmate from Taylor University in
Upland, Indiana were week end visit
ors in the Memo Augsburger home.
The baseball season for the Pan
doraGilboa Little Leagues" opened
Monday evening with a parade head
ed by the high school band through
town thence to the park where the
first game of the season was played
with Ottawa. The Little League
activities are under the direction of
Prof. Edward Haughn of the Gilboa
schools. Mayor Geo. F. Fisher gave
the boys their official go sign when
he pitched the first ball Monday
night in their game with Ottawa.
Friends of Walter Haas, formerly
of this community, will be interested
to learn that he was recently remov-
ed from hospital in Columbus to his
home in Findlay and seems much i'm
proved from his long illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Van Meter ac-
companied by their father Harley
Van Meter from near Rockport spent
Sunday at the farm home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Van Meter near Angola,
Indiana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sheldon Hall left
Tuesday morning for a two weeks
trip through the Eastern States and
will include a visit with Mrs. Halls
parents in New York.
Keith Diller, Julien Kempf, Rob-
ert Rice and Jim Tousley will join
other boy scouts of the Put-Han-Sen
area, making up two complete scout
troops, who will attend the annual
National Boy Scout Jamboree in San
ia Ana, California, July II through
%.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Soldner of
Bluffton stopped here for visit at
the Milford Haas home enroute from
a trip to Mountain Lake, Minnesota,
where they were guests in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Quentin C. Lehman
and sons. The Soldners also attended
the memorial service for their niece,
Pauline Ann Lehman held at the
Bethel Mennonite church in Mountain
Lake, Sunday, May II.
Mayor and Mrs. George F. Fisher
and daughter Priscilla accompanied
Mrs. Zilla Mast to her home in Can
ton, Saturday, returning on Sunday
afternoon. Mrs. Mast, who is Mrs.
Fishers mother, had been a guest in
the Fisher home since Mothers Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elam Welty, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dennis Free, Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell Welty and children Dean and
Jeanene, and Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight
Baumgartner and daughter Francis
Kay were Sunday visitors at the
Toledo Zoo. .
The Sunday School class taught by
Haydn Basinger from the St. John