The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-08-30
200 Flower Arrangements, 500 Specimen
Blooms Make COlOrfuI Flower Festival

Farms, best miniature dahlias; John
/ Boehr, four to eight-inch dahlias;
and Darlene Kuhn, Arcadia, over
eight-inch dahlias.
Grand champion and reserve
champion in the gladiolus division
went to Romacre Glads of Liberty
Center, Ohio, and sweepstakes award
in the King and Queen Rose division
went to H. w. Allison, Lima. Leland
Diller won the sweepstakes award
on asters.
First-place blue ribbons were pre-
sented in the various divisions of the
show as follows:
Artistic arrangements: Mrs. Ur-
ban Long, Ada; Mrs. Cal Garmatter,
| Columbus Grove; Mrs. Paul Stauffer,
Mrs. Paul Emmert, Mrs. Kenneth
| Winkler, Gordon Bixel, Mrs. Alice
Barnes, Mrs. Paul Whitmer, Mrs.
Irwin Rodabaugh, Mrs. Nelson Stei-
ner and Mrs. c. H. Smith, all of
Bluffton; Mary Smith, Toledo; and
Mrs. Robert Goss, Columbus. Those
James King, Lima; and Mrs. Vida
AlthauS, Bluffton. Those receiving
three blue ribbons we're: Mrs. H. w.
Allison, Lima; Mrs. David Riser,
Bluffton; Mrs. Cal Steiner Bluffton;
Mrs. Herbert Kindle, Bluffton; Mrs.
Ray Hilty and Miss Sue Riser both
of Bluffton.
Miniature arrangements: Col or
ribbon. First prizes with blue ribbons
were: Mrs. Herbert Traueht, Mrs.
| Herbert Kindle, Mrs. Kenneth Wink
Ter, Mrs. Robert Kreider and Mrs.
Jerome Herr, all of Blufton; Mrs.
Herbert Long of Ada; and Miss Mary
Smith of Toledo.
Featured compositions: Mrs. Je-
rome Herr, Edith AmstutZ, Sue Ris-
ser, Mrs. Bryan Basinger, Mrs. Mel
son Steiner, Mr.. Oliver Zimmerman,
all of Bluffton; and Leah Romaker,
Liberty Center.
Bouquets: Mrs. Otto Holtkamp,
Lydia Augsburger, Mrs. Alma Grif-
| fifth, Mrs. Jerome Herr and Mrs.
Bryan Basinger, all of Bluffton.
Table settings: Mrs. Robert Krei-
der and Mrs. Dale Reichenbach
worked together on one table and re-
| celVed nfSt prize.
Junior arrangements: Sally En-
inert, Gayle Gerber, Gregg Lugin-
buhl, Gregg Traucht, Jimmy En-
inert, Glen Fritz, Carol Basinger,
Kathy Basinger, Mary Steiner, Tom
my Herr, Karen Basinger, Allen
Traucht, all of Bluffton.
Junior specimens: Gregg Lugin-
buhl won three firsts; Sandra Diller,
Connie Habegger, Maureen Burk-
holder, Reggie Welch, Kaye Motter,
Mary Ann Zimmerman, all from
Bluffton, each won one first.
In Section G of delphinium Mrs. F.
Powell and Mrs. Cal Steiner of Bluff
ton, won the firsts.
In the Section / of GladioluS, firsts
went to jeanne Rigal, Liberty Cen
ter, two; Romacre Glads, Liberty
Center, ten frsts; Mills and Fox,
| Wapakoneta, nine; Paul Krock, Up
per Sandusky, three; Leah Romacre,
| Liberty Center, three; How ar d
B e cry, Columbus Grove, three;
Pearl Arnher, Cridersville, three;
Mrs. Paul Krock, Upper Sandusky,
one; Rita Kay Stevely, Wapakoneta,
two; Jerome Smith, Toledo, four;
Anna Pifer, Bluffton, one.
There were five entries on baskets
for gladS and Romacre GladS, Llber-
ty Center, got first.
Under Section ]. Roses, Mrs. F.
Powell, Mrs. Lenore Montgomery,
Myron Motter and Leland Gerber,
all of Bluffton, each took one first;
H. w. Allison, Lima, took four firsts;
Mrs. Urban Long, Ada, one; the Rev.
n DhilIinc EHiYnd1ou ono. IJIIldo
Garmatter, Columbus Grove, one;
Mrs. Francis Lehman, Pandora,
two; and Charles Smith, Lima, four.
In Section K of the garden speci-
mems Mrs. Cal Steiner won one first
on a tuberous begonia; Mrs. Karl
Gierman, one first on a crested
cOckscomb; Mrs. ". M Niswander,
first for a plume cockscomb; Mrs,
Harvey Beidler, first for yellow mar
igold; Allen Traucht, first for orange
marigold; Kathy Traucht, first for
small marigold, Leland Diller, first
for snapdragons and aSters.
Others from Bluffton winning firsts
in the garden specimens are: Mrs.
F. Powell in yellow Zinnias and
mixed pom zinnias; Ivan Clements,
red zinnias; Alma Griffith, hybrid
zinnia; Myron Motter, white Zinnia;
Mrs. Emma Studler, red pom Zinni-
as; and Mrs. Bertha Hahn, dwarf
Unwin dahlia. Ebert Tewell, Carey,
won a first in chrysanthemum; Le-
land Diller, snapdragon; Alma Grit
fifth, lilies.
Under Section M Unusual plants,
Frank Luginbuhl, Bluffton, won first
in Bells of Ireland; Mrs. Norman
Schroer, Lima, won a first in hibis-
Gus and Mrs. Milton Bixler, Bluffton,
first in begonia.
Mrs. Nelson Steiner was general
chairman of the festival with Mrs,
w. M. Niswander, chairman of the
entree committee and Kermit Herr,
chairman of the speciman division.
Mrs. A. B. Murray headed the host
esses.