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BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Live
VOLUME LXXII
THIRD TURBINE IS
PLANNED HERE AT
MUNICIPAL PLANT
Council Approves Plan of Board
of Public Affairs Monday
Night
1850 KW Navy Unit From
Government Surplus is Be
ing Considered
'«p
Generating capacity of Bluffton’s
municipal light and power plant will
be expanded by the addition of a
third turbine within the next year,
it was announced Monday by the
board of public affairs.
Bids for providing the turbine, an
1850 KW unit, will be sought by tfie
board as soon as specifications are
drafted for necessary legal advertis
ing, with the possibility that install
ation will be completed in time to
make the generating unit available
for use when a new boiler, ordered
last spring, is ready for operation.
With lack of funds and slow de
livery eliminating purchase of a new
turbine, the board has under con
sideration a marine-type turbine
built for U. S. Navy destroyer
escorts during the war, now being
sold as government surplus, it was
disclosed.
Consider Used Navy Unit
With a few minor changes, the
Navy turbines could be adapted for
use in the local plant, and the cost
likely will be approximately one
fourth that of a new unit, it was
stated.
Need for an additional turbine is
pointed out by the fact that Bluff
ton’s daytime electrical load has ex
ceeded capacity of the first turbine
installed in the local plant a decade
ago.
It has a rating of only 750 KW,
and the town’s electrical current de
mand has expanded to the point
where peak loads can be met only
by a larger 1250 KW turbine, which
now’ must be operated virtually all
of the time.
Sufficient funds are available in
the plant’s reserves to cover purchase
of the turbine, according to board
estimates presented to the municipal
council at last Monday night’s meet
ing. The council authorized adver
tising for bids, following an explana
tion of the present situation at the
plant.
Geo. Boedicker Dies
Funeral On Thursday
George W. Boedicker, 85, pioneer
resident of Orange township died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Gladys Hosafros, 408 Cherry street,
Tuesday afternoon.
His death was attributed to a
heart ailment. He had been bed
fast for the past week following a
period of failing health.
Funeral services will be held at
the home of Mrs. Hosafros, Thurs
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock with
Rev. V. C. Oppermann of the Re
fo’-med church officiating. Burial
will be in the Thompson cemetery.
Until last March when he moved
to the home of his daughter here,
Mr. Boedicker was a lifelong resi
dent of Orange towmship where he
was bom July 4, 1862, the son of
Frederick and Dora Carlowitz Boe
dicker. He was the last of a fam
ily of seven. His wife the former
Lilly Mae Ewing, died April 23,
1931.
Three daughtrs surviving are Mrs.
Hosafros and Mrs. Norah Stuart
of Bluffton and Mrs. Hazel Mason
of Lima also three grandchildrn.
The body is at the Paul Diller
funeral home from where it will be
taken to the residence of Mrs. Hosa
froe this Wednesday afternoon.
Dwight Murray Is
Lions Club Speaker
Dwight Murray of Findlay, form
,er Bluffton resident and district gov
ernor of the Lions club addressed
the dinner meeting of the Bluffton
Lions at the Walnut Grill, Tuesday
.night
D. W. Bixler, newly elected presi
dent of the Bluffton club presided
and introduced Murray who has re
cently returned from the Lions In
ternational convention held at San
Francisco.
The club, Murray said, is the
lamest service organization in the
world and is represented in 19 coun
tries with more than 6,200 clubs
and over 330,000 members.
Its major activity is sight conser
vation «and' aid to the blind although
more than 85,000 different activities
were reported to the international
headquarters in Chicago during the
past year, he said.
High School Band
Concert Saturday
A concert by the uniformed Bluff
ton High school band will be pre
sented on the Presbyterian church
lawn Saturday evening as one of
the features of an ice cream social
sponsored by the Band Mothers or
ganization.
Proceeds from the social go into
the fund for the purchase of new
instruments and uniforms for the
band.
John Martin, who last year wras
Bluffton High school music super
visor, will direct the band.
EIGHT GRID TEAMS
TO PLAY HERE IN
PREVUE ON SEPT. 5
Some Of Best Elevens In This
Area Will Appear In All
Star Show Here
Football Prevue Sponsored To
Raise Funds For Town Recre
ation Program
Eight of the best Class high
school grid teams from this area
will perform in an all-star program
under the lights at Bluffton Harmon
field Friday night, Sept. 5, in a
1947 football prevue sponsored by
the Bluffton Recreation committee".
In the evening competition there
will be four 12-minute games, in
which teams from Elida, Columbus1
Grove, Rawson, Lafayette, Mt. Cory,!
Pandora and Ada will appear.
Schedule of competition for the
prevue will pit the following teams
against each other:
Mt. Cory vs Lafayette
Pandora vs Rawson
Ada vs Columbus Grove
Bluffton vs Elida
In the football prevue, sports fans
of the area will have an opportunity
to see their teams in action before
the season officially opens, with each
contest running 12 minutes, the
customary length of a quarter in a
regular contest.
Competing Elevens
Of the competing elevens, Elida,
Pandora, Lafayette and Columbus
Grove are members of the North
w’est Conference of Class teams
Raw’son and Mt. Cory play in the
Hancock County Little Seven Bluff
ton is a member of the Western
Buckeye league, and Ada is an in
dependent Class exempted village
outfit.
Elida and Bluffton last year were
champions of their respective
leagues, and both were undefeated
in regular season play. It was
Elida’s second year in a row to chalk
up nothing but victories and schedul
ing the Bulldogs against Bluffton
will provide one of the outstanding
features of the prevue.
Proceeds For Recreation
With the Bluffton Recreation Com
mittee sponsoring the 1947 football
prevue, all proceeds in excess of
team quarantees and other expenses
wall be used in furthering the town’s
year-around recreation program.
Woodrow Little and Harry Bogart
are in charge of advance ticket sales
and distribution of publicity Eugene
Benroth is chairman of the publicity
committee Ralph Lanham, Rev.
V. C. Oppermann and Leland Diller
are in charge of ticket sales at the
game Paul Diller heads the com
mittee on ushers, and Mayor W. A.
Howe will be in charge of policing
the grounds.
Coach Kent Cotterman, of Bluffton
High school, is general chairman in
charge of arrangements..
Concert At ML Cory
Church Sunday Night
The Salem Methodist church choir
will give a concert at the Mt. Cory
Methodist church, Sunday night at
8 o’clock. This is the second of a
series of Sunday evening musical
services being held at the Mt. Cory
church.
The Salem choir from near Arca
dia, is directed by Donald Green
formerly of Mt. Cory. Offering tak
en at the service will be contributed
to the organ fund.
SURGICAL PATIENT
Garaldine Montgomery, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Montgom
ery of Orange township is convalesc
ing at Bluffton hospital where she
underwent an operation for appendi
citis. Monday morning.
Heat And Humidity Continue To
Hold Bluffton District In Grip
Temperature Hits High Mark
of 99 Degrees Tuesday
Afternoon
No Immediate Relief in Sight
Rains Benefit Crop
Prospects
Heat, which has blanketed the
Bluffton area almost continously for
the past two weeks showed no signs
of abating Wednesday as tempera
tures again shot up into" the upper
nineties. No relief is in sight be
fore the end of the week at the
earliest.
Highest temperature of the week
was recorded at 99 here Tuesday
afternoon, although street thermom
eters showed from 6 to 8 degrees
above that figure.
A high degree of humidity made
the heat more intense as residents
sought in vain for a measure of
relief.
Outlook for crops in the Bluffton
district, however, is improved fol
lowing a heavy electrical storm and
downpour of rain last Thursday
night. The rain greatly benefitted
the corn now at a critical stage and
also potatoes, growers said.
“Grounds” Interfere
With Street Lights
“Grounds” interfered with the op
eration of Bluffton’s Main street
boulevard lighting system, Tuesday
night. Residential districts on North
and South Main street w’ere without
street lights and also some lights
in the business section were out of
commission.
Attaches of the municipal light
plant said the difficulties were
caused by grounds in the under
ground cable which supplies current
for operation of the boulevard sys
tem. The grounds developed after
last Thursday night’s heavy elec
trical storm and maintenance crews
have been at work locating and re
pairing the damage.
Street lighting in other parts of
town also is affected .principally
Church street and parts of Cherry
and Jackson streets.
Juniors Win, Lose
To Close Season
By Laurel Bauman, Jr.
Bluffton Junioi* baseball team won
one game and lost one in play of
the last week, to bring to a suc
cessful close heir first season of
play.
Bluffton 17, Huntsville 11
With Schmidt coming through with
another win, the Bluffton Juniors
closed their home season with a vic
tory, their third in a row. There
were two highlights coupled by
Schmidt’s pitching, a home run by
Dick Baumgartner into left field, his
third of the season. Bluffton also
got a double play, Jim Badertscher
to Lynn Carmack to Howard Landis.
Bluffton 9, Huntsville 13
Scoring six runs in the first two
innings, the Juniors could not hold
the lead and saw it disappear in
the fourth inning when Huntsville
started a five run rally to seal the
game.
Jim Badertscher toed the mound
and was hit rather hard. Leading
hitters for Bluffton were, Dave
Baumgartner, Dick Baumgartner,
Don Schmidt and Dwayne Hauen
stein.
Several of the players made the
final appearance for Bluffton, and
will be missed considerably in next
year’s team. They are, Dick and
Dave Baumgartner, Don Schmidt,
Howard Landis and Dwayne Hauen
stein.
Attend Defenseless
Church Conference
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jorg, Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Diller and son Tim
othy and the Misses Marie and Ruth
Diller attended the conference of the
Defenseless Mennonite church in ses
-ion at Taylor university, Upland,
Ind. The conference closed last Sun
day.
Motorist Removed To
Hospital After Crash
Paul Snavely, Bluffton Rt. 1 was
removed to Bluffton hospital for
first aid treatment following an ac
cident on the Lincoln highway east
of Beaverdam Saturday afternooi
in which his car and a truck were
involved. His injuries were not
serious and he left the hospital
after treatment.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1947
WOMAN KILLED AND
CAR WRECKED AS
TIRE BLOWS OUT
Accident Fatal To Mrs. Elvira
Perry Enroute To Home In
California
Victim Was Daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. J. J. Sutter
Others Injured
Enroute to her home on the west
coast after a six-weeks visit with
relatives in this area, Mrs. Elvira
Sutter Perry, 46, native of Bluffton
and daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John
J. Sutter, of Lima, died last Wednes-'
day of injuries received when the
automobile in which she was making
the return trip overturned near
Tucumcari, New Mexico.
Less seriously injured in the
crash were Mr. and Mrs. Orton
Stratton, of near Bluffton Mrs.
Daisy Pifer, of Rawson and Patricia
Perry, daughter of the mishap
victim.
The party of five were traveling
in Mrs. Pifer’s car, when a tire blew’
out and the auto overturned as it
was passing a truck. In the crash
the car wras demolished.
Six-Weeks Visit
Mrs. Perry and daughter had
come here six weeks ago from their
home in Glendale, Calif., to visit
with her parents, principally at
Lakeside.
They joined Mr. and Mrs. Stratton
and Mrs. Pifer for the return trip,
when they learned the local persons
w’ere going to California to visit
Mrs. Stratton’s sister, Mrs. Lucy
Hunsicker and other relatives.
Starting their journey on Sunday,
Aug. 10, the party had traveled ap
proximately 1,500 miles before the
accident oecured last Wednesday
morning. At the time of the crash,
they still were 1,000 miles from their
destination. Fatally injured when
the car overturned, Mrs. Perry died
shortly afterward.
Stratton Injured,
Ai a Tucumcari hospital it was
found that Mr. Stratton suffered an
arm injury and his wife received
lacerations and shock, Mrs. Pifer
and Mrs. Perry’s daughter, Patricia,
escaped with minor injuries.
According to word received here
Mr. and Mrs. Stratton and Mrs.
Pifer plan to remain in Tucumcari
about a week, and then return home
via train.
Mrs. Perry’s body was sent to
Lima by railroad, arriving Saturday.
Her husband, Anthony Perry, flew
here from Glendale for funeral serv
ices held Sunday at the Siferd and
Son funeral home in Lima. Burial
was in Maple Grove cemetery in
Bluffton.
Bluffton High Graduate
Born in Bluffton Aug. 18, 1900,
Mrs. Perry was graduated from
Bluffton High school in 1918. She
attended Bluffton College and was
graduated from Ohio State universi
ty. Later she received her master’s
degree from the University of
Akron, and studied at the University
of California and University of City
of Los Angeles for her doctor’s
degree.
For 15 years, Mrs. Perry was as
sociated with the Los Angeles board
of education. She was married to
Mr. Perry in 1935.
In addition to her husband and
daughter, she is survived by her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. John J. Sutter
of Lima, former Bluffton residents
three sisters, Mrs. Raymond Strat
ton, Bluffton Mrs. Paul Evans, San
dusky, and Mrs. Larry Miller, Find
lay.
Family Dinner
A family dinner was enjoyed at
the country home of A. S. Neuen
schwander and son Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Neuenschwander and family,
last Sunday.
Present were:
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Neuensch
wander, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Neu
enschwander, Ft. Wayne Rev. and
Mrs. Homer Becker and daughter,
Pittsburgh Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Zuercher and family, Lima Mr.
and Mrs. Morris Steiner and family,
kngola, Indiana.
Rev. and Mrs. John Neuenschwan
der and daughter and Marjory
Gratz, poplar Bluff, Mo. Rev. and
Mrs. Harley King and daughters,
Paso Robles, Calif. Mr. and Mrs.
)mer Gratz and family, Pandora.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Neuensch
vander and son, Mr. and Mrs. Rich
rd Cookson and son, Mr. and Mrs.
Lay Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
farshall, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bucher
and Miss Mary Lugibihl, all of
Bluffton.
Former Resident
Dies In Cleveland
Mrs. Fairy Battles, 69, wife of
Asa Battles .formerly of Bluffton
and Orange township died in St.
Luke’s hospital, Cleveland last Wed
nesday night. Death was attributed
to a heart attack in connection with
other illness. The family has re
sided in Cleveland for many years.
Surviving are her husband and a
daughter, Mrs. R. L. Quigley of
Cleveland. Funeral services were
held in that city Friday followed by
burial there.
Anniversary Picnic
In honor of the birthday anni
versary of Mrs. Ray Cooley of
Bloomville, a group of friends en
joyed a basket dinner at Riverside
park, Findlay.
Present were: Mr. and Mrs. Thos.
Koontz and Jean Ann Klingler,
Bluffton Joan Gallant, Bucyrus
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Frankenfield, Re
public Elnore Frankenfield, Fos
toria Norman Frye, Bettsville Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Cooley, Carolyn and
Ray Lee Cooley, Martha Blaser,
Lyle Rhoads of Bloomville and John
Gribler of Willshire.
Births
following births at Bluffton
The
hospital:
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Staley, Ada,
a boy, Ronald Lynn, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Crow’, Pandora,
a girl, Wednesday morning. Mrs.
Crow’ is the former Rachel Criblez
of Bluffton.
Settlement
Mr.
Reuben Leake and William
McAllister of York, New York, spent
Saturday evening and Sunday with
Rev. and Mrs. Howard Landes.
Rev. and Mrs. John Neuenschwan
der and family of Poplar Bluff, Mo.,
and Rev. and Mrs. Harley King and
family of Paso Robles, Calif., are
visiting relatives and friends here.
Announcement wras made Sunday
morning of the approaching mar
riage of Miss Leia Jean Hill and
Rolland Reichenbach. The wedding
is to be solemnized at the St. John
church Saturday evening, August 30,
at 7:30 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Noah Bixel are
spending some time at Wlnofia Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lehman left
the last of the week for Mortonville,
Ill., where they are to spend some
time in the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stuckey and
family.
Earnest Bauman recently purch
ased the Charles Wilkins farm con
sisting of 140 acres. This tract is
the northeast corner farm of Riley
township.
Mr. and Mrs. Haydn Steiner of
Toledo spent the week end with rela
tives here.
Mrs. (Rev.) Aubrey Henderson
and children Irma Marie and John
William of St. Clair, Michigan, are
visiting among relatives here.
Sunday visitors in the home of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Ben Basinger
were, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Bucher,
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bucher and
children Hugh, Carl and Beverly of
Lima, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Basinger
and sons Fred, David, Harold, Ralph,
Monroe, Irvin and daughter Edna of
Toledo. Evening visitors were Sa
rah Basinger, Mrs. Henrietta Hend
erson, Mr. and Mrs. James Harlan
and daughter Jeanne of Augusta,
Michigan.
Rev. and Mrs. Myron Hilty and
familv of Diagonal, Iowa, are here
spending a couple of weeks visiting
their home folks. Rev. Hilty was
the preacher at the St. John church,
Sunday evening.
Vernon Schumacher submitted to
an appendectomy’ at Bluffton hos
pital' one day last week and is get
ting along nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gerber of Dal
ton, Ohio, were Sunday afternoon
visitors in the home of Mrs. David
Schumacher and sons
Mrs. Salome Basinger and sons
Kenneth and Billy are expecting to
leave for California in the near fu
ture to spend a year.
Reunions
The Sutter-Welty family reunion
will be held Sunday, August 24 at
the Pandora school building.
The Schifferly family reunion will
be held in Richland Grange hall,
Sunday, September 7. Mrs. Grace
Tschiegg, secretary.
THANKS FRIENDS
Carol Ann Mathewson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Mathwson w’ho
was injured last Tuesday at Buck
eye lake is recovering at her home
on North Main street.
Carol washes to thank all her many
friends for the cards and gifts
received during her illness.
she
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning
Grain (bushel prices) Wheat
$2.30 com $2.40 oats $L05 soys
$3.
Poultry’—Heavy’ hens, 24c leghorn
hens 20 heavy fryers, rocks, 28c
heavy fryers reds, 26c
ers 24c stags 13c.
Eggs—Large whites
browns 43c mediums
35c.
Butterfat—75c.
leghorn fry-
54c large
49c pullets
Royal Neighbors
Meeting of the Royal Neighbors
lodge will be postponed until next
Friday night.
Edith Lahr Missionary Circle
The Edith Lahr Missionary Cirrie
will meet Thursday evening at the
home of Mrs. Ralph Badertscher
with Mrs. Albert Baechler of Lima
assistant hostess. Mrs. Chas. Hilty
w’ill lead, devotions. Miss Meredith
Stepleton w’ill be guest speaker. At
this meeting gifts of food suitable
to send for European relief will be
collected.
Methodist Class Picnic
Members of the Friendly class of
the Methodist Sunday school and
their families will hold a picnic
Thursday evening at 6 o’clock at
the Roadside park one mile south
west of Beaverdam on
Everyone bring
table service.
basket
August Wedding
Mr. and Mrs.
Pandora announce the coming mar
riage of their daughter June Eliza
beth to Donavin Diller, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Diller, northeast of
Pandora.
Geiger of
Hiram
The wedding will take place Fri
day evening, August 29 at 7:15 in
St. John Mennonite church near
Pandora. The custom of open church
will be observed.
Gertrude Hoy Circle
The Gertrude Hoy Missionary
circle will observe Family night on
Friday evening at 6:30 o’clock with
a picnic supper at Harmon field.
Each member and family is invited
and urged to attend.
Progressive Mothers Club
The Progressive Mothers’ club will
meet at the home of Mrs. Lavonne
Craw’fis next Tuesday night at 8
o’clock.
The program follow’s: Roll call our
most serioiis childhood illness devo
'tlonaX 'ArTem- r.ut’bnhiitiluchilffhVWd'
diseases, Juanita Swank.
Legion-Auxiliary Picnic
The annual picnic of Bluffton
Legion post and the Ladies Auxiliary
will be held at Buckeye lake, next
Tuesday night with a potluck supper
at 6:15 o’clock. Come and bring
your ow'n table service. Contests and
prizes. In event of rain it will be
held in the Legion hall.
Garden Club
The Garden club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Frank Todd, Thursday
afternoon. The following program
has been arranged: Roll call, an item
from a garden magazine Foliage
Plants for Added Interest, Mrs.
Homer Gratz arrangements of flow
ers, foliage and
Nelson Steiner.
Band Mothers
Meeting of
high school,
o’clock.
vegetables, Mrs.
Attend Wedding
Mr. and Mrs.
sons of Orange
week end in Wellington, Ohio, where
they attended the wedding of Mrs.
Warren’s niece, Miss Marie Mc
Cormick to Arthur Carkeek of
Detroit. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carkeek
are seniors in the music department
of DePauw’ university, Greencastle,
Ind.
Clyde Warren and
township spdnt the
Band Mothers at the
Monday night at 8
Farm Women’s Improvement Club
Fann Women’s Improvement club
members and their families will hold
a picnic this Thursday night at La
fayette park. Supper at
7:o0.
Cornelia Circle Picnic
The Cornelia Missionary
Emmanuel's Evangelical
formed church held its annual picnic
at the Earl Matter home Monday
evening.
Those present were: Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Gratz, Mr. and Mrs. Wilford
Gratz, Mr. and Mrs. Roily Moser,
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Creeger,
and Mrs, Sidney Balmer, Mr.
Mrs. Raymond Matter, Mr. and
William Reichenbach, Mr. and
Truman Bixel, Mrs. Carrie Thut,
Mrs. Sarah Matter, Willis Anderson
Sharon Gratz, Larry and Lavern
Moser, Larry Creeger, Ellen Rae
Arlene, Nancy’ and Alan Balmer
Kaye and Jimmy Matter, Robert
Roy and Barbara Reichenbach, Ear
Dean Bixel, Marjorie Van Meter
Rev. V. C. Oppermann and Mr. an’
Mrs. Matter and daughter Carolvn
After the supper a social time was
enjoyed by ah present.
BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Trade
NUMBER 18
DIESEL ENGINES TO
BE ADDED IN FALL
ON NICKEL
First Demonstrator
Bluffton Sunday
Run
Route 25.
lunch and
PLATE
Goes Thru
On Test
Plan To Put Diesels On NKP
Flyers This Year May Dis
continue Stops Here
Forerunner of a fleet to be added
in a Nickel Plate railroad improve
ment program, the first diesel-pcrwer
ed locomotive seen in Bluffton w’ent
over the tracks of the railroad here
Sunday afternoon at 3:20 p. m.
Hauling the regular afternoon thru
freight, the diesel engine burning
oil for fuel was on a demonstration
run ordered by railroad officials,
who are said to be contemplating ad
ding 11 diesels on the Nickel Plate
system this fall.
Two of the new-type engines are
scheduled for operation on the San
dusky-Peoria division, thru Bluff
ton, to pull the St. Louis-Cleveland
flyer. It is expected that the change
from steam to diesel locomotion will
be made in late fall, approximately
November or December.
No Stops Here
According to current unconfirmed
reports, the St. Louis-Cleveland fly
er may not stop in Bluffton after the
new locomotives are added. Instead,
two local trains would be added to
make stops here, with the flyer
scheduled to pick up passengers only
at Lima and Findlay in this area.
Sunday’s run of the demonstrator
was witnessed by only a handful of
persons, gathered at the station to
see the locomotive, for advance no
tice that the train was coming thru
was received here only a couple of
hours before it was scheduled.
With its motors humming and a
hoarse whistle blasting for crossings,
the reddish-orange colored diesel lo
comotive went thru Bluffton at slow
speed. It was pulling a train of 68
leaded freight cars and a caboose.
On Demonstration
train at Bellevue and pulled it to
Lima, where it was replaced by a
coal burning engine. At Lima the
diesel switched to the D. T. and I.
tracks, also for demonstration pur
poses. Later in the week it is expec
ted to. return thru Bluffton east
bound.
The locomotive on the first test
run bore the number FM 2000 and is
manufactured by the Fairbanks
Morse Co. On .the train crew’ were
F. M. Bodicker, Lima, engineer J.
R. Brown, fireman D. W. Thompson,
conductor and R. L. Sullivan and
B. F. Bow’er, brakemen.
Name Delegates To
General Conference
Delegates from Bluffton area Men
nonite churches affiliated with the
General Conference left Wednesday
morning -for Berne, Ind., to attend
the triennial sessions of the confer
ence, opening this Wednesday and
continuing for one w’eek.
In addition to the delegates, many
others from the Bluffton and Pan
dora district are expected to attend
the conference over the week end.
The following delegates have been
namd:
First Mnnonite—Rev. and Mrs. J.
N. Smucker, I. W. Bauman, Ger
hard Buhler, Laurence Burkhalter,
Delvin Kirchhofer, L. L. Ramseyer,
J. S. Schultz, C. H. Smith, G. T.
Soldner, P. E. Whitmer.
4
Circle of
and Re-
Mr.
anc
Mrs.
Mrs.
and
Allb
Mrs.
Hil-
Ebenezer Mennonite Rev.
Mrs. Howard Landes, Willis
stutz, S. S. Bixel, Ezra Bucher,
Hiram Neuenschwander, Philip
ty, John Lugibill, Phyllis Marquart,
David Niswander and Mrs. Melvin
Zimmerly.
Youth For Christ”
Rally On Saturday
Rev. Harold Burkholder, paster of
’mmanuel Mennonite church of Los
\ngeles and native of the Bluffton
irea will address the “Youth for
Christ” rally to be held in the high
chool auditorium here Saturday
night at 8 o’clock.
is a son of Mr.
Rev. Burkholder
and Mrs. J. T. Burkholder south
west of town and the rally ip one
a monthly series being held al
ternately in Bluffton and Pandora.
Special music will be provided by
he “America Back to God” radio
uartet consisting of Kenneth Cum
nes, Russell Ward, Chas. Fergu
on and Geo. Kenney. Cumines will
ead the singing with Min Ruth
Jijjel of Grace Bible Institute con
ervatory, Omaha, Nebraska, at the
piano.