The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-06-05
BLUFFTON LOCALS

in India, visited with Mrs. B. D.
Smucker last week, who had been
with them for two weeks in Oberame-
gau, Switzerland, in 1854. Other Bluff
ton friends are the Paul E. Whitners
and the K. S. Lapes, and they with
Mrs. c. H. Smith, Miss Edna Ram
seyer and Miss Ada Lapp, held a re-
union picnic on the college campus
Thursday.
June history: Jefferson Davis was
born the Bird, 1908; ID" Day was the
9th, 1874; Franklin's experiments
drew lightning the 10th, 1752; the
l4th is Flag Day; the 18th, 1876 was
the Custer Massacre; and the first
U. S. troops reached France.
the 18th, 1917. Arkansas became
state June Is, 1896; Hawaii was or
ganized as U. S. territory the 18th,
1900; Kentucky came into the Union
the 1st 1892; New Hampshire ratified
the constitution the 21st, 1913; Ten
nessee became a state the 1st, 1876;
Virginia ratified the constitution the
18th, 1888; and West Virginia became
state the 18th, 1863.
The Bluffton college faculty held
their annual after-commencement
luncheon in the Mennonite church,
Monday. DR.. w. ]. Faulkner, Chjca-
go, the commencement speaker, DR..
and Mrs. Floyd Pannabecker and Mr..
and Mrs. Gerhard Buhler were guests
OF honor. Mr.. and Mrs. Buhler are
taking a group of sixteen young peo-
pie to Europe, leaving Saturday on
the S. S. New York, to be gone until
the last of August.
Velma Moser, Anita Stewart and
Kayleen Rupright, three member of
the Bluffton Accordionettes, played at
the Swiss Day festivities at Bluffton
college on Friday. The Accordion
cites are directed by James Liechty,
Bluffton college student.
Mrs. B. D. Smucker and Mrs. Al
bert Kay are in East Lansing, Mich
gan, attending the graduation festiv-
tiles of their grandson, Jan Smucker,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Orden Smucker.
Mrs. Rose Lehman Baumgartner of
Berne, Indiana, visited this past week
with MIR. and Mrs. Herbert Marshall.
Mr.. Ray Hauenstein, who has been
hospitalized in the Bluffton and Lima
Memorial hospitals for the past month
has now returned to the Mennonite
home.
Miss Clara Wilson of Brooklyn, is
visiting this summer with her sisters,
Mrs. Florence Wilson Hilty, and Mrs.
Mary Wilson Plate of Lima.
Miss Kay Clauss has finished her
six weeks training in the Keifer T..
B. hospital, Detroit, and will have a
months vacation before continuing at
Memorial hospital, Lima. .-
Miss Alice Ludwig, who had an op-
GRAFTON on her eyes in the Lima Me-
mortal hospital last week, is planning
to come home soon. Miss Rhoda Hilty
will be with her.
Rev. and Mrs. Herrick Todd of
North Baltimore spent Memorial Day
with Mr.. and Mrs. Armin HauenStein
and Mrs. Irene Bitter, who returned
to her home in Painesville Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Augsburger and
Mrs. Hazel Eversole spent Sunday at
Lakeside. Mrs. Eversole remained to
spend the summer.
BaSinger ambulance removals -
Myron Meyer from Lima Memorial
hospital to his home near Bluffton;
Mrs. G. c. Montgomery from the
Bluffton hospital to her home in
Orange township; Miss Odulla Am
stutz from the Bluffton hospital to
her home on Lawn avenue.
The following guests attended a
pot luck supper Saturday evening at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Hauenstein in honor of T/Sgt. and
Mrs. Glenn Hanlin and daughter Deb
orah, who are leaving Thursday for
Adak, Alaska: Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald
Hauenstein and fanny; Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Hauenstein and sons of Bluff
ton; Mr. and Mrs. Eric Ericsson; Gin
ger and Peggy Ludwig; Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Hauenstein; Carey and Charlene
Sparkling, Lima; Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Hauenstein and children, Bell Cen
ter; Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose Keller,
Bellefontaine. There address will be,
T/Sgt. Glenn L. Hanlin, Box As, Navy
230, Seattle, Washington, for the next
II months.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. ]. Yoder and fam
lily of Michigan City, Ind, and Mr..