The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1956-06-28
BLUFFTON LOCALS

Y LOCALS
turned the first Of the week from a
two weeks' vacation spent with Mrs.
Geiger's daughter and family in
Charlotte, N. G.
Mrs. Harry Shalley is visiting her
two sisters and other relatives in Ft.
Wayne, Ind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Gratz made
a trip to Pennsylvania last week end
and visited their son Don and family
in Lancaster and attended the we'd
ding of friend in Souderton before
returning home.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. 3. Longsdorf
were in Columbus Thursday and Fri
day where the former attended
business meeting of the Trustees of
the Ohio Retired Teachers Associa-
tion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Triplett are
combining a business and pleasure
trip that will take them to the west
coast via the northern route.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Spiess, Jr. of
New York City will arrive here Sat-
urday for a weeks vacation with her
mother, Mrs. ]. o. Blome. They will
also spend several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Gareth Todd and family in
Lansing, Mich. Mrs. Blome plans to
return to New York with them to
spend several weeks.
Mrs. Nina johnson has been re-
leased from st. Rita's hospital after
a week as medical patient there,
and has returned to her home near
Fostoria.
DR.. and Mrs. Russell Oyer, Chenoa,
ILL.,, returned TO their home Wednes-
day after visiting at the home of her
parents, DR.. and Mrs. J. S. Schultz.
Both DR.. and Mrs. Oyer are Bluffton
college graduates.
Miss Pauline Faze, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Faze of Route 1,
Lafayette, attended Latin conven-
tion as student delegate of Lafay-
ette-Jackson high school at Miami
university, Oxford, Ohio this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Lehman are in
Miami, Fla, where Mr.. Lehman is
representing the Bluffton Lions club
at the convention of Lions Inter-
national.
Word has been received here of the
death of Russell Lantz's mother in
Topeka, Ind. Mr.. Lantz had been In
Topeka for some time during his
mothers illness. Funeral services
were held Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Hilty, Jerry
and Diana Joy and Mrs. Duluth
Strunk were week end guests of rela-
tives in Ithica, Mich, where they
attended the Cornwell- Coulter reunion
Sunday. Also attending from here
were Orton and Jesse Stratton and
Cynthia Troupe.
Mrs. Willard Miller and Mrs. Helen
Shankle of Canton spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Long of Garau
street.
Basinger ambulance removals..
Orrin Cupp from his home near
Columbus Grove to the Lima Mem
orial hospital; Frank D. Conley from
the Bluffton Community hospital to
the Brown hospital, Dayton, Ohio.
Roger Edwards, Mary 10 Diller
and Gloria Moser have returned from
a week at Ohio University, Athens,
where they attended workshop for
editors and business managers of
high school yearbooks.
DR.. and Mrs. Harold Lehman have
moved from Berne, Ind, where DR..
Lehman has practiced medicine for
the past nine years, to Jeffersonville,
Ind, where he has accepted post
as company physician for the Good
rich Tire company of that city. JEFF
fersonville is just across the river
from Louisville, KY, and the Leh-
mans have taken a home which over
looks the Ohio river. Mrs. Lehman
is the former Eleanor Berky, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Berky of |
S. Spring street.
Mrs. Salome (Basinger) Brabham
of Santa Barbara. Calf is visiting |
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Amos
Suter. Enroute to Bluffton she visit
ed her brother, Rev. Elmer Basinger
and wife at Mt. Pleasant, Ia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Hilbish of Ak
ron spent the week end with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Stearns and were accom-
panied home by Mrs. A. B. Castanien
If Toledo who has been visiting here.