The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-08-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Brooke OF
Dearborn, Mich, have rented the
home of Mrs. Cliff Stratton on East
Elm street, and Mrs. Stratton has
purchased a trailer home which she
is moving on Garmatter street at the
home of her son Robert, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs, Glenn Griffith of
Schenectady, N. Y, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Kitchen and sons, and Mr..
and Mrs. Darrell Carr and family
were past week guests of Mrs. Alma
Griffith. Other recent visitors were
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Griffith of Madi-
son, West Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. James Szabo and
sons Jeff and Jerry, are to join Mr..
and Mrs. Claude Dozer and son,
Gregg, of Canton, for vacation stay
at Catawba point next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Huber, south
of Bluffton, and Mr.. and Mrs. Olin
Herr of Vaughnsville have been va
cationing in the Smoky mountains.
Chester Huber celebrated his 18th
birthday last week by taking to the
road in his car to sell subscriptions
to The Bluffton News and The Find
lay Republican Courier.
Mrs. Dora Locher was the guest of
honor at a birthday party Monday
evening at the Harold Balmer home
on South Lawn avenue. In addition to
the Balmer family members of the
Leland Diller family attended the
gathering. ......
Misses Pearl and Gaynell Basinger
and Misses Odulla and Kathryn Am
stutz, all of Bluffton, and Mrs. Har-
vey Which of Kenton, motored to Can
ton, Ohio and enjoyed a Swiss pro-
gram. They were all supper guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Herst of Dal-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. LaVerne D. Geiger
and children of Washington Grove,
Md, and Mrs. Della Geiger of Pan
dora were Saturday visitors at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Amos c. Suter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Nelson and
Mrs. Elizabeth Neff of Chicago were
guests in the H. d. Raid home the
first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell LantZ, of The
Gift House, left Sunday for the semi
annual Chicago gift show. Displays
will be at the LaSalle and Palmer
House: they will include imported and
domestic merchandise from twenty
eight countries. At the Merchandise
Mart additional hundreds of lines fill
many show rooms at this, the worlds
largest commercial building. Last
year there were more than 1000 buy
ers attending from all over the u. S.
The Lantzs will return this Friday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evan Soash from
st. Clair Shores, Michigan, and their
three sons, Norman, Bradley and Don
are here visiting with their parents.
The Presbyterians held their annual
church picnic at Harmon field Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Clauss, daugh-
ters Kay and Sue, visited friends in
Defiance and Bryan last week.
Mr.. Thorne Lauriat is one of num-
Der of drivers in car caravan to
interesting points in the west. Mr..
Chet Sampson of Detroit is the di-
rector of the five week trip. The group
is travelling in Ford station wagons
and camping out along the way; they
left from Crosse Point, Michigan.
Some sixty-five high school young
people from the Detroit area make
up the cavalcade. Douglas Mcbride,
Thorne's roommate at Capitol univer-
sity, is also one of the drivers.
Mrs. Ted Toews and two children,
who have been visiting Mrs. Meta
Dean for the past month, returned
to their home in Menlo Park, Cali
fornia, last week.
Pvt. First Class Bruce Hauenstein
will be home soon for a two-week
furlough from Ft. Riley, Kansas, to
be with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Armin Hauenstein.
DR.. Don Smucker and Mrs. Smuck-
er of Chicago, with their children,
have been home with his mother, Mrs.
B. D. Smucker, for the past week.
Mrs. Bertran Smucker and three
children of Port Jefferson, Long Is
land, are with Mrs. Smucker this
week.
Miss Edna Rarlseyer, Mrs. Meta
Dean, Miss Ada Lapp and Miss Sally
Hill of Findlay drove to New York
City last week. Miss Ramseyer and
Mrs. Dean are visiting friends there,
while Miss Lapp and Miss Hill went
on to Puerto Rico TO attend an ed
ucation conference there. They will
be gone some ten days. or more.
Last Thursday evening Miss Laura
Conrad, late of India, gave an illus
trated talk or her experiences there,
to the Women's S. S. class of the
Mennonite church.
Mrs. Carl Smucker and son David
spent last week end with her moth
er, Mrs. Mary Yoder, in Smithville.