The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-08-21
MAINLY PERSONAL

water ever witnessed by veteran
lake men. 1t took the Bluffton
trio three hours to regain shore
through the turbulent water.
THE ALLEN co FAIR has
been the most popular diversion
this week with this community
we'll represented both in the blue
ribbon winning exhibits and in
abundance of spectators. A. c.
Burcky, Bluffton's own repre-
sentative on the fair board, is
again presiding over the poultry
displays which this year are
sharing a building with the rab-
bits. Coach has certainly rounded
up an interesting bunch of birds.
Maurice Criblez, whose Brown
Swiss cattle, are regular blue
ribbon winners at the State fair
and Chicago Livestock shows as
well as the Allen county affair,
is proud that the local fair has
been selected this year as the
place for the state show by
Brown Swiss breeders.
The Bluffton breeder has ship
ped some of his prize stock to
many parts of the world and he
tells us one of his cows, once
owned by Cecil Hartman, may
make milk production history.
The COW was purchased from
Hartman on Criblez' recommen-
dation by c. B. Woods, a Prince
ton university professor who
owns a large dairy herd at his
White Cloud farms in New Jer-
sey.
The 1112-year-old COW has pro-
duced 440 pounds of butterfat in
the first 85 days of her test in
New Jersey and is averaging
LOG pounds of milk a day, almost
unbelievable production - and
coming from a COW that old.
A YOUNG WIFE PROSPEC-
TOR couldn't find better hunting
than to list the names of those
young ladies of the All clubs who
seem to be so handy with needle
and thread and over the top of
kitchen range.
The Bluffton Buttons G. Bows
club exhibited some fine pieces
of the homemaker's skills. Blue
ribbon dresses were displayed
by Carol Schmidt, Pauline Mot
ter, Martha Gratz, Anita Huber,
Karen Diller and Melanie Ben
roth, to mention a few. Melanie
also exhibited some beautiful
jars of canned beets, pickles and
strawberry jam yum, yum.
The club leaders are Mrs. Ber-l
dell Huber and Mrs. Herbert
Rupright. +.
Beaverdams Busy Stitchers
under the leadership of Mrs.
Carl Fett and Mrs. Lester Van
Meter, also had a handsome dis
play. A few of the blue ribbon
Stitchers were Melinda Marshall.
Dorothy Van Meter, Rosemary
Stechschulte, Virginia Smith,
Marilyn Pratt, Sara Wells, and
Sharon Unterbrink. An array of
tasty-looking rolls and cookies
by Carole Parkins, Twyla Augs-
burger and Rosella Schick were
taking the eye of fair visitors.
too.
BLUFFTON FLA BOYS were
well represented in the Livestock
barns. We noted Steve Dunlap's
and Len Lewis pens of Shrop-
shire breeding sheep. In the
swine barn Roger Leiber exhib-
tied his Duroc Jersey pigs, Gary
Herr had pen of Chester White
market pigs, Larry Dunlap was
showing Hampshire and York
mixed breed and Gary Hughes
showed a pen of three Hampshire
breeding gifts.
| We noted young Tom Cribley
braiding the tails of his special
Brown Swiss dairy cows getting
them ready for the judging and
Larry Zimmerly has a display
of Holstein heifers and COWS,
Larry Amstutz is showing a Hol-
stein calf as is Rosella Schick
in the All division of the show
Showing in the All fat steer
division are Sherril Burkholder
Dennis Smith, John Van Meter.
Ronnie Barber and Dorothy Van
Meter, all of Beaverdam. and
from Bluffton were Gail Benroth.
Ronnie Steiner John Neuen-
schwander, David Barnett and