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A Good Place To Live
VOLUME LXXI
55 SENIORS WILL
GRADUATE AT HIGH
SCHOOL ON MAY 22
Dr. J. E. Hartzler to Deliver
Class Address at Com
mencement
Rev. Howard Landes to Deliver
Baccalaureate Sermon
May 18
Bluffton High School will have a
class of 55 graduates—27 girls and
28 boys—at commencement exercises
to be held Thursday night May 22,
according to a tentative list of grad
uating seniors announced this week
by school authorities.
Dr. John E. Hartzler, Bluffton res
ident while he was president of Wit*
marsum Theological seminary here,
will be the class speaker. Baccalau
reate services to be held Sunday
night, May 18, preceding commence
ment will be addressed by Rev. How
ard Landes, pastor of the Ebenezer
Mennonite church.
Mary Kathryn Bauman is class
valedictorian and Alice Ruth Panna
becker is the salutatorian. Selection
is based on scholarship standing.
The tentative graduatyig list in
cludes the following seniors:
Harriet Ann Amstutz, Bernice Lu
cille Bauman, Mary Kathryn Bauman,
Elizabeth Ann Bixel, Joanne Arline
Buhler, Jean Anne Burcky, Joan
Burkholder, Helen W. Burkholder,
Catherine Ellen Bohn.
Phyllis Joan Clark, Colleen Rae
Goodman, Bonnie Gene Grismore, Jo
anne W. Harmon, Sara Jane Huser,
Marjorie Louise Klay, Esther Ruth
Kohler.
Wanda Aleene Lehman, Eleanor
Linden, Peggy Jane Martin, Sara
Mae Oberly, Alice Ruth Pannabeck
er, Pauline R. Pursell.
Elizabeth A. Schmidt, Patricia Ann
Schmidt, Gloria June Sechler, Wanda
Marie Tschiegg, Imogenq E. Wenger.
John J. Althaus, Harold Edwin Am
stutz, Malcolm Basinger, Howard El
don Beery, Paul Don Bixel, Keith
Brauen.
Harry James Criblez, Robert N.
Coon, Ray Edward Crouse, Kenneth
Lane Finton, Don Jamie Fritchie,
Karl Nelson Frick, Morris Joseph
Groman, Bill Herbert Haller, Lyman
Keith Hofstetter.
Ronald Keith Kirtland, Richard A.
Kuhn, James Hubert Lewis, Rolland
Ray Luginbuhl, James Emerson Mes
singer, Larry Miller, Richard De
Wayne Newlan.
Maynard Pogue, Michael H. Rea
gan, Cornelius Schmidt, W. Wayne
Sommer, Richard Kent Stonehill,
Robert Edwin Wilch.
Romey-Basing
er
Nuptials Sunday
The home of Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
Romey provided the setting for the
wedding of their daughter, Carolyn,
and Stanley Basinger, son of Dr.
and Mrs. Francis Basinger, Sunday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock.
An arrangement of white gladioli,
roses and snapdragons formed an
attractive background for the nup
tials. Members 5f the immediate
families were present for the cere
mony performed by the Rev. Paul H.
Cramer, chaplain in World War II
and friend of the groom. Miss Nelle
Lugibill of Cleveland, attended Miss
Romey as maid of honor, and Dr.
Wade Basinger of Philadelphia act
ed as best man for his brother.
An aqua two-piece suit was worn
by the bride. Her accessories w’ere
in cinnimon shade and her corsage
was cattelya orchids. Miss Lugibill
wore a tan plaid suit with a corsage
of chestnut brown orchids.
Following the ceremony a recep
tion was held for several hundred
guests. The bridal table in the din
ing room was centered with a tiered
wedding cake wreathed in greenery.
After an eastern wedding trip Mr.
and Mrs. Basinger will reside in
Bluffton.
The bride was graduated from
Bluffton college and a member of
Pi Delta scholastic honorary society.
At present Mrs. Basinger is em
ployed at the Citizens National bank.
Mr. Basinger, a graduate of Bluff
ton college and Ohio State univers
ity, served 32 months with the army
in the European theatre, and is af
filiated with Phi Kappa Sigma fra
ternity. He is a funeral director in
Bluffton.
Gun Club Trap
Shoot Sunday
Bluffton Gun club will hold a trap
shoot Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock
at the Gossard filling station on the
North Dixie highway. Merchandise
prizes will be awarded.
Three Birthdays
In Cookson Family
Occur On April 16
rT’HIS .Wednesday. April 16, is
A birthday day in the Richard
Cookson family of South Jackson
street. A boy as yet unnamed
was born at Bluffton hospital
early Wednesday morning to Mr.
and Mrs. Cookson on the moth
er’s 26th birthday.
And just to make the coinci
dence all the more unusual, the
day also is
the baby’s
Patterson,
Cookson of
Mrs. Arthur Alhro in Ft. Wayne
Hospital with Fractured
Arms
Driver of Car Instantly Killed
As Truck Crashes Into
Automobile
The two ministers and their
wives were hospitalized in Ft. Wayne
from which the men .were released
after th^jr injuries were found not
serious.
Mrs. Shisler, the most seriously
injured of the four sustained a skull
fracture, broken ribs and internal
injuries. She was placed in an oxy
gen tent.
Rev. Albro and Rev Shisler are
remaining in Ft. Wayne with their
wives for the present. Rev. Albro,
poster of the Missionary church in
Ft. Wayne was pastor of the Mis
sionary church here until three
years ago when he was succeeded by
Rev. Robert Welch, the present pas
tor.
Cuban Speaker Will
Address Presbyterial
Dr. Emilio Rodriguez Busto, sup
erintendent of the Presbyterian
schools in Cuba will be the principal
speaker at the annual spring meet
ing of Lima Presbyterial to be held
in the Bluffton Presbyterian church
Wednesday of next week.
He will speak in thf afternoon
session open to the public at 2:00
o’clock on educational conditions in
Cuba.
About 180 women from the 26
churches in Lima Presbytery are
expected to attend the meeting here.
Sessions will open in the morning
10 o’clock and in the afternoon
1:15.
Mrs. Eva Kohli and
moved into their North
property she recently
from Mrs. Hazel Biome.
2,000 Students Will Compete In
Music Auditions Here On April 26
the 28th birthday of
aunt, Mrs. Charles
the former Carol
Huntington, W. Va.
FORMER PASTOR'S
WIFE BADLY HURT
IN AUTO CRASH
hus
the
ser
hos-
Mrs. Arthuf Albro, 58, whose
band- was formerly pastor of
Missionary church here is in a
ious condition in the Lutheran
pital, Ft. Wayne, as the result of
injuries sustained in an automobile
accident last Thursday night in
which the driver of the car in which
she was riding was instantly killed.
Her husband, also a passenger in
the car escaped with minor injuries.
Mrs. Albro sustained fractures of
both arms, head injuries and lacer
ations of the face.
The accident occurred in a driving
rainstorm at 10:30 o’clock. Rev.
and Mrs. Albro and Ralph Bailey,
41, all of Royal Oak, Mich., and Rev.
and Mrs. Joseph Shisler of Detroit
were returning from a church con
ference in Peoria, HL
The fatality occurred 18 miles
east Vf Ft. Wayne when two trucks
sideswiped and one jackknifed and
crashed into the passenger car hurl
ing it into a six foot ditch at the
side of the road. Bailey, driver and
owner of the car, died instantly of
a fractured skull.
at
at
Addresses Chemical
Society
Alfred Hirschler, Philadelphia
search chemist, son of Mrs.
Hirschler of West Elm street
of the speakers at a meeting
American Chemical society at
tic City this week.
re
J.
one
the
is
of
Atlan-
In New Locations
sons have
Main street
purchased
Wm. Ruggley who formerly occu
pied the house has moved into the
Dillman property on Thurman street
recently vacated by Mrs. Lucille
Stager Kallenburger now living in
Decatur, Indiana.
Northwest Ohio District Audi
tions at High School
Next Week
Band, Orchestra and Choral
Groups Will Be Entered
In Competition
Competition in the Northwestern
Ohio High School Music Auditions,
to be held here under auspices of the
Bluffton college department of music,
will bring approximately 2,000 high
school pupils to Bluffton on Satur
day, April 26.
Competitors from approximately
40 schools will compete in choral,
band and orchestra groups in the
all-day meet here,
noon and evening
held.
Morning, after
sessions will be
solo or ensemble
There will be no
competition in the Bluffton audition.
Students in those classes will com
pete at Bowling Green university
this coming Saturday. Winners will
go to Columbus later in the spring
for the state contest.
Use Auditorium-Gymnasium
In the auditorium here, vocal
groups will compete in the high
school auditorium, and bands and
orchestras will play in the school
gymnasium. No further competition
will be scheduled for winners.
Prof. Russell A. Lantz, director
of the college department of music,
is directing the audition and will
serve as chairman for the all-day
meet.
Judges include the following:
Choral: Ellis Snyder, Capital uni
versity Dale Gilliland, Ohio State
university and Daniel Harris, Ober
lin Conservatory of Music.
Band and Orchestra: Arthur Wil
liams, Oberlin Conservatory of Mu
sic Ernest Manring, Cleveland, and
Roy Metcalf, Kent State university.
New Office Manager
At Farm Bureau Here
The Allen Farm Bureau Coopera
tive announce that Wilson “Bill”
Naas of Lima has joined the or
ganization as bookkeeper and man
ager of the office in Bluffton.
Naas was born in Cairo and grad
uated from Columbus Grove high
school and Northwestern School of
Commerce. He recently returned
from five years in the army where
he held the rank of master sergeant
in the A. G. D.
He and his family will occupy the
former Wayne Lugibihl property in
the Fred Mueller addition on East
Jefferson street. The residence, re
cently purchased by the Allen coun
ty commissioners was made avail
able to Naas under provisions of the
G. I. housing program.
British Woman To
Lecture In Lima
Mrs. Rose Buckner of London,
England, will speak in Lima at St.
Mark’s Methodist church, formerly
Grand Avenue Methodist, next Tues
day night at 8 o’clock on the subject
“Church and Religion in Britain and
the British Home.”
Mrs. Buckner, frequently heard in
radio broadcasts from London dur
ing the war is accompanied by her
three children on a lecture tour.
Her appearance next Tuesday night
is under auspices of Lima Chapter
of the Mailbag club. Tickets may
be obtained from Mrs. H. E. Augs
burger.
Former Bluffton
Girl Weds In Lima
Miss Betty Hahn, eldest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Hahn,
former Bluffton residents and grand
daughter
Hahn of
the bride
Mr. and
Lima, in
ding at Wesley Methodist church in
Lima, Sunday.
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
West Elm street, became
of Jack Strahm, son of
Mrs. George Strahm, of
an attractive spring wed-
Anne
were
Misses Barbara and Jo
Hahn, sisters of the bride,
bridesmaids, and another sister, Kar
on Sue Hahn, was flower girl. The
Hahn family has lived in Lima for
about eight years.
Following a wedding trip to Flor
ida, the young couple will make
their home in Lima. The groom is
owner of a gasoline filling station,
and the bride until recently worked
in the office of Feldman’s depart
ment store.
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning
Grain (bushel prices) Wheat,
$2.65 corn, $17.50 oats, 85e soys,
$3.60. Poultry—Fryers, 32c heavy
hens, 30c leghorns, 21c sta^gs, 17c.
Butterfat—69c.
VHE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1917
COTTERMAN HIRED
FOR THREE YEAR
TERM AS COACH
Board of Education Takes Ac
tion at Special Meeting
Tuesday Night
Athletic Mentor Made Outstand
ing Record with Teams
Here Past Year
Kent Cotterman, 27, Bluffton high
school athletic coach and physical ed
ucation director was re-hired under
terms of a three year contract at a
special meeting of the board of edu
cation Tuesday night at an annual
salary of $2,800.
Cotterman is completing his first
full year here as athletic coach dur
ing which time Bluffton teams made
athletic history by winning football
and basketball championships of the
Western Buckeye league.
The achievement, it is pointed out,
is all the more remarkable because of
the fact that Bluffton, with smaller
enrollment of a Class school was
engaged in competition with larger
schools of Class A enrollment.
Outstanding Record
Cotterman’s record here has made
him one of the outstanding athletic
coaches of Northwestern Ohio and
news of the board’s action in rehiring
him on a three year basis was receiv
ed with satisfaction by sports follow
ers here.
Cotterman first came to Bluffton
in 1943 to take charge of spring
sports when George Swank, Jr., then
coach, was called into military ser
vice. At that time we was a student
in Ohio Northern university, Ada.
I^ater he was called into naval ser
vice from which he was reeleased in
February of last year.
His father, Hardin county school
superintendent, was formerly head of
the Alger schools.
$40 Stolen From
Orange Ticy. Home
Forty dollars she had been saving
to buy her baby chicks this spring
were taken from the pocketbook of
Mrs. Henry Grismore living east of
the Baptist church in Orange town
ship, when the residence was entered
by.a burglar about 3 a. m. last Sun
day.
Sheriff Orla A. Cooper, of Han
cock county, said Mrs. Grismore had
left the purse on the kitchen table.
The intruder gained entrance thru
an unlocked rear door.
Grismore told the sheriff he was
aroused by the family dog growling
in the kitchen.
Upon investigation he found the
empty pocketbook laying on the back
walk. Its contents, minus the cash,
were scattered on the lawn at the
southeast corner of the house.
Noting that an outside light had
been turned off, Grismore said he
presumed the thieves also were at
tempting to take chickens with them,
but was unable to determine if any
were missing.
Remains Of Mrs. IF. H.
Scoles Coming To Ada
Remains of Mrs. W. H. Scoles, 93,
who died December 25 in Los An
geles will arrive in Ada on Wed
nesday, April 30, according to word
received Tuesday by Mrs. Emmet
Scoles of near Beaverdam.
The late Mrs. Scoles formerly re
sided on what is now the Bert
Leatherman farm northeast of Beav
erdam.
Accompanying the body will be
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. John Scott of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Scott is the former Zoe Scoles.
The body will remain at an Ada
funeral home uptil time for the
services to be held at Pleasant Hill
church, Friday afternoon, May 2 at
2 o’clock. The pastor, Rev. Fauver,
will officiate. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
Philosophical Writer
At College Vespers
Dr. D. Elton Trueblood, professor
of philosophy at Earlham college
and a well-known
writer, will be the
ton college vesper
m. next Sunday in
liis subject will
tern of Living.”
philosophical
speaker at Bluff
services at 3 p.
Ramseyer chapel,
be “A New Pat-
Dr. Trueblood received his Ph. D.
degree at Johns Hopkins, and in
addition has been a fellowship
student in England. He is co-editor
of “The Friend Magazine,” published
in Philadelphia.
Many of those hard-to-get items,
characterizing the shortages of this
period, including a new automobile,
new refrigerator, new tractor, etc.,
will go to the highest bidder at the
gigantic community auction sale to
be held at Harmon field on Saturday,
May 3, under the auspices of the
Bluffton Presbyterian Talent pro
gram.
As plans for the auction took shape
this week, the early rush of committ
ments on the part of those willing to
make donations or contribute items
to be sold on a percentage basis, in
dicated the sale would be the largest
of its kind ever held in this area.
Headline features to be offered in
the auction will include a new Chev
rolet automobile a new Ford-Fergus
on tractor with plow a new garden
tractor, and a new Hotpoint refriger
ator.
All of these are in the class of ex
tremely hard-to-get items, as the re
sult of long lists of prospective post
war purchasers, but in view of the
total aggregate of products offered
for sale they comprise only a minor
portion of the actual auction offer
ings.
Lush Stand Of Wheat
Bright Spot In
Outlook One of Best in Recent
Years Acreage is sat
isfactory
Heavy snows covered wheat fields
thruout most of March this year,
and the hazard of roots being ex
posed to variable weather, a factor
which so often wrecks
prospects, was not at
this spring.
New Auto And Tractors Among Other
Scarce Items To Be Sold At Auction
1
Crop Comes Thru Critical
Freezing and Thawing Sea
son Unharmed
This spring’s lush stand of wheat,
one of the most satisfactory
recent years, is being eyed
farmers of the Bluffton district
one of the few bright spots in
otherwise none too promising crop
outlook due to the backwardness of
the season.
in
by
as
an
With the latter part of April at
hand, this year’s wheat crop has
come through the spring season with
virtually no damage from the alter
nating freezing and thawing weather
usually encountered in March, and
the stand appears to be one of the
best in many seasons.
bumper crop
all
apparent
the
area is
slightly
cause of
Wheat acreage in
estimated at average, or
greater than usual, another
satisfaction on the part of farmers
who have been held up by the late
arrival of spring in getting at their
plowing and in sowing oats.
Equally satisfactory from the
farm viewpoint is the price situa
week was quoted
by local markets.
is expected to
summer’s harvest
farmers
tion. Wheat this
at $2.65 a bushel
Altho this price
decline when next
is started, nevertheless
believe the world demand for wheat
will sustain a comparatively high
level of prices thru the harvest sea
son.
On the more unfavorable side of
the farm picture, the lateness of the
spring season, with water-logged
ground delaying spring tillage until
this week, has resulted in revamped
plans for farm crops.
Acreage which had been allotted
to oats in particular is being diverted
to other crops or wrill be allowed
to grow’ up in grass for pasture.
Farm observers point out that
with less than two weeks remaining
in April, by far the greater part of
spring tillage, usually out of the
w*ay by this time, remains to
done. Conservative estimates
that spring work generally will
from three to four weeks late.
be
are
be
Lima Pastor To Speak
At Youth Meet Sunday
Rev. Warren Bright, pastor of St.
Mark’s Methodist church, Lima, will
address a meeting sponsored by the
Bluffton Youth Federation in the
Methodist church here Sunday night
at 6:30 o’clock. All teenagers are
invited.
This is the first of a series of
youth programs to be held monthly
in churches here.
Rev. Bright, a leader in young
people’s work is dean of the Metho
dist Young People’s institute at
Lakeside. The theme of his subject
Sunday night, “Striking Twelve”
will be carried out through the pro
gram, talks and refreshments.
Among other items will be a huge
display of used and new furniture
of every kind, new tires,
irons, electric sewing macl
boxes, a ton of coal,
tor, baking oven, fu
cabinets, radios, a
electric
ne, tool
an electric mo
■1 tanks, kitchen
new’ bicycle, a
home frozen food locker, radio test
equipment, an outdoor grill,
implements, horse collars and
water tank.
farm
a hot
as an
Endorsement of the auction
advertising medium and sales promo
tion venture for the town has been
made by the Bluffton Business Men’s
association, and merchants are coop
erating in the consigning of merchan
dise to be offered for sale.
Articles will be sold on a commis
sion basis or as a donation, whichever
plan is agreeable to the owners, it
was pointed out.
Participation is open to all resi
dents of the area having new or used
articles for sale, including furniture,
livestock, farm produce, household
appliances, etc.
Items to be offered for sale are to
be listed with Clair Fett, chairman of
the auction committee, and may be
left at the Bluffton Slaw Cutter
building on Saturday afternoons.
This Spring Is
District Farm Picture
Schools Closed Last
Week Reopen Monday
Bluffton’s high and grade schools
re-opened Monday after having been
closed last week by county health
authorities following outbreaks of
scarlet fever and measles.
Evelyn Erwin, county health nurse
said there were 75 absentees
grades and 25 in the high
Monday morning, not all of
were due to illness, which
ently reached its peak last week
and now is subsiding. Unless new
developments arise, schools will re
main in session, she said.
in the
school
which
appar-
Gerhard Buhler, high school prin
cipal is in charge of administration
of the schools during the absence of
Supt. R. S. Lanham whq is quaran
tined at his home where Mrs. Lan
.im is recovering from an attack oi
scarlet fever. Health authorities
said the quarantine will be lifted
April 25.
Last Rites Monday
For Mrs. Geo. Klay
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon in the Diller funeral
home for Mrs. George Klay, 51, who
died at her home on South Mound
street at 10:40 a. m. last Saturday.
Death was from complications and
followed 15 years of illness. She
had been bedfast for the last three
months.
The daughter of William and Ar
minta (Swank) Dally, she was born
on May 1, 1894, in Orange township.
Her father survives, as does her hus
band, whom she married May 12,
1917.
Three daughters and a son also
are living: Mrs. Mary Jane Cook,
Mrs. Josephine Burkholder, Marjorie
Klay and Richard Klay, all of Bluff
ton. A brother, Maurice Dally, lives
at Hawthorne, Calif.
Mrs. Klay was a member of the
First Methodist church, Bluffton.
Rev. Paul Cramer, pastor of the
Methodist church, officiated. Burial
was in Maple Grove cemetery.
High School Music
Program April 25
Bluffton high school music talent
will appear in a program at the
auditorium Friday night, April 25
at 8 p. m., under direction of John
Martin, music supervisor.
Numbers will be given by the
mixed chorus and boys and girls glee
clubs together with solists who will
compete in the northwest district
music contest to be held at Bowl
ing Green State university
urday.
The
this Sat-
Births
following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Bluffton, a boy, Wednesday morning.
Cookson,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Seyer, Colum
bus Grove, a boy, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bixel, La
fayette, a girl, Shirley Elaine, Mon
day.
and Mrs. Cleo Garau, Bluff
boy, Stephen Karl, Thursday,
and Mrs. Leonard Slygh, Ar-
Mr.
ton, a
Mr.
lington, a boy, Edward Eugene, last
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Conaway,
Bluffton, a girl. Cheryl Lee, last
Wednesday.
A Good Place To Trade
Farmers
NUMBER 52
SPRING PLOWING
HERE HALTED BY
RAIN AND SNOW
Unable to Get Into
Fields Before First of Next
Week.
Tillage Started in Some Spots
Early This Week Stopped
Wednesday.
Spring tillage which got under
way in spots in the Bluffton area
Monday and Tuesday was effectually
halted by rain Tuesday night follow
ed by snow on Wednesday. The
ground which was getting into condi
tion for plowing’is again so water
logged that work in the fields will
be stymied at least for the
er of this w’eek.
remaind-
a stand
week at
With tillage operation at
still until the first of next
the earliest, there will remain only
ten days in April for spring plow
ing, which ordinarily would have
been done the latter part of March.
With weather conditions favorable
for work in the fields Monday and
Tuesday for the first time this
spring, farmers w’hose land was i»
condition for tillage made the most
of the opportunity, working from
dawm to dusk with tractor-powered
plow’s.
Potato Planting Starts
Center of activity the first of this
w’eek w’as in the sandy loam area
northwest of Bluffton, extending to
Pandora, in which excellent w’orking
conditions were reported.
In that section, some planting al
ready has been done, with early po
tatoes in the ground on some farms.
With oats seeding delayed by a
month, and com planting time com
ing up in another four weeks, fann
ers will be pushed to cope with the
rush of spring tillage activity
about by inclement weather
spring.
brot
this
only
fields
Unfavorable conditions not
kept farmers out of their
throughout February and March, but
a continuation of the same weather
further delayed a start of work dur
ing the first two weeks of this
month.
About the only favorable aspect
of the cold, wet spring is the fruit
outlook, for w’ith budding held back
by weather conditions there should
be no danger of frost by the time
trees are in blossom. This is in
contrast to last ‘spring when the
Bluffton district fruit crop w’as lost
in a late freeze, after trees blos
somed in early Aprik
Caretaker For Harmon
Field Hired By Board
Stanley Stauffer, Bluffton college
student, was hired as caretaker for
Harmon field at a special meeting
of the Bluffton hoard of education,
Tuesday night. He was hired for a
five months
ber 31 at a
period, April 1 to Octo
salary of $50 per month.
Estate Deals
Real
Zanna and Ray Staater have sold
to the Bluffton Telephone company
the vacant space fronting Church
street between the rear of the Gratz
dry goods store and the alley. Mau
rice Mahoney, local manager of the
company said the first of the week
he has received no word as to what
the company expects
real estate.
to do with the
of East Elm
the Roy Mar-
Emerson Lugibihl
street has purchased
shall farm of 80 acres in Orange
township and expects to move this
week.
Stevens Smith, manager of the Al
len County Farm Bureau Coopera
tive here has purchased the Emerson
Lugibihl property on East Elm street
and expects to move next week, va
cating the first floor of the former
P. E. Whitmer property at Jackson
and Franklin streets recently pur
chased by Ed Wai term ire, Bluffton
retailer.
Mr. and Mrs. Waitermire expect
to move the first of next month into
their property, occupying the first
»floor which will be vacated by Smith
and his family.
Mrs. Wayne Lugibhl has sold her
property in the Fred Mueller addi
tion on East Jefferson street to the
Allen county commissioners and left
for Englewood, Calif., to join her
husband who is employed as a ma
chinist at that place. The property
will bo oc upied under provisions of
the G. I. housing program by Wilson
Naas and family who are moving
hero from Lima. Naas recently ac
cented a position as office manager
of the Allen County Farm Bureau
Cooperative here.