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BLUFFTON
A Good Place to Trade
VOLUME LXXIV
NO EARLY ACTION
IN PROSPECT FOR
NEW SCHOOL HEAD
Informed Quarters Say That
Board Will Take No Steps
At Meeting Monday
Numerous Inquiries and Appli
cations Reported on School
Vacancy Here
Bluffton board of education will
take no action in selection of a new
superintendent of schools at its meet
ing next Monday night, it was stated
in informed quarters this week.
Monday night will be the first ses
sion of the board since it accepted
the resignation of Superintendent
Ealph Lanham at a special meeting
on May 21.
Lanham’s resignation becomes ef
fective July 1 and during the cur
rent month he plans to keep in
touch with affairs of his office here
before assuming his new duties as
head of the school system of Ashta
bula Harbor.
Sources close to the board of edu
cation indicated that numerous in
quiries and a number of applications
for the position here have been re
ceived.
There has been no indication as
to when the board will take up the
matter of filling the vacancy, how
ever, this may be deferred possibly
until next month at the earliest,
since problems incidental to making
out the budget for next year’s oper
ations are now being ironed out.
Budget Difficulties
Members have repeatedly pointed
out that lack of sufficient funds
makes the matter of arranging a
budget, especially difficult. Since
this matter was in process before
Lanham’s resignation was submitted,
it probably will be finished before
any other major issue is taken up.
Lanham, who served as superin
tendent of school here for the past
five years received a three year
contract at Ashtabula Harbor at a
base salary of $5,400 for the first
year with an increase of $100 for
each of the remaining two years.
His present salary here was $4,008.
The local board of education in
accepting his resignation here re
leased him from serving the re
maining three years of his current
contract.
At the meeting when Lanham’s,
resignation was accepted, the board
of education stated that his suc
cessor must meet minimum stand
ards of the North Central Associa
tion off Colleges and Secondary
Schools which require that a super
intendent must have a Master of
Arts degree in school administration
together with experience as principal
or superintendent of schools.
Donkey Ball Games
At Harmon Field
A donkey baseball game in which
players of two local teams ride
donkeys will be staged at Harmon
field next Wednesday night under
lights. Game will be called at
8:02 p. m.
All players will be mounted with
exception of the pitcher, catcher and
batter. The latter, however after
making a hit must mount his donkey
and ride the bases. Donkeys are
Santa Fe bred burros, trained at
the famous Green Valley farms.
The affair is sponsored by Bluff
ton American Legion post as a
benefit performance for heating the
Legion hall here.
Named President
Of Engineers Group
Robert Byers of Cleveland, son
of N. E. Byers of West Kibler
street, was recently elected presi
dent of the Northern Ohio chapter
of the American Society of Heating
and Ventilating Engineers.
Byers who was in town last week,
is a partner of the firm of John
Paul Jones, Cary and Millar, con
sulting engineers and is in charge
of designing the heating, ventilating
and plumbing bf Bluffton college’s
new gymnasium-auditorium.
During the past two years he has
served on the Guide publication com
mittee of the National American so
ciety of Heating and Ventilating En
gineers which is considered as the
standard of the heating and venti
lating field.
Real Estate Deal
Harold Montgomery, news stand
operator, has purchased the Mrs.
Elsie Buckland residence on North
Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Montgom
ery are moving in this week. Mrs.
Buckland recently moved into her
newly built home on Thurman street.
Named RMA Director
v
Across the grave of Dr. Munson
Bixel, World War I veteran, in the
verdant setting of the cemetery, Rev.
Paul Cramer, chaplain of the Bluff
ton American Legion post, reminded
his hearers of the example of su
preme sacrifice and devotion rend
ered by those who gave their lives
in defense of their country.
Remembrance of our indebtedness
to them should awaken in all of us
a keener realization of our own re
sponsibilities to this nation, which
has given its citizens more benefits
than any other in the world, Rev.
Cramer declared in a stirring call
to preserve oux way of life.
Fair weather which prevailed
throughout the three-day holiday
weekend helped swell the crowd
which viewed the parade and fol
lowed it to the cemetery for the
traditional exercises.
1
T. L. Triplett, president of the
Triplett Electrical Instrument
Co., has been elected to the
board of directors of the Radio
Manufacturers association for a
three year term it was announc
ed this week.
The board consists of 44 mem
bers representing leaders in the
radio manufacturing field and al
lied lines. For the past five
years Triplett has been chair
man of the instrument and test
Equipment section of the RMA
parts division.
SECURITY PLEDGES
ADDED TO TRIBUTE
ON MEMORIAL DAY
Examples of Supreme Sacrifice
By War Dead Cited In
Holiday Address
Memorial Day Services At
Maple Grove Cemetery Fol
lowing Parade
Pledges of rededication to Amer
ica’s security were added to words
of reverent tribute paid to the sol
dier-dead of four wars in Bluffton’s
Memorial Day exercises held Mon
day morning in Maple Grove ceme
tery.
Forming at the town hall, the pa-i
rade of participating organizations
marched to the cemetery where the
ritualistic ceremonies were held over
the grave of Dr. Bixel, who died
during the last year.
In the parade line of march, head
ed by the Legion color guard, were
the Bluffton High school band, Le
gionnaires, Boy Scouts, war veter
ans, boys and girls on gaily decor
ated bicycles and uniformed mem
bers of the Legion auxiliary.
Rev. Cramer, Legion chaplain
who gave the Memorial Day address,
served overseas as a chaplain dur
ing the European invasion in World
War II.
Business and industry suspended
operations in the town on Monday
in observance of the holiday, and
there was no mail delivery.
With The Sick
John Wilkins, 83-year-old retired
farmer received a fractured right
leg just below the hip in a fall at
his home on Cherry street Friday.
He was taken to Bluffton hospital
for x-ray and later returned to his
home where his condition is reported
satisfactory.
Mrs. Forest Steinman who was a
surgical patient in Bluffton hospital
is convalescing at her home on South
Lawn avenue.
Mrs. Peter Gratz was severely
bruised when she fell down a flight
of stairs at her home on South
Jackson street. Her daughter, Mrs.
Paul Lawrence of Harrod is here
taking care of her.
College Graduates Record Class
Of 55 At Commencement Monday
Bluffton business and professional
men will grow beards during the
next month to advertise the com
munity’s biggest Fourth of July
rodeo—the “Forty-Niner Gold Rush’’
event—to be held at Harmon field
the night of the holiday.
With beards to be untrimmed un
til after the rodeo many a bushy
beaver will greet shoppers in down
town stores—a bristling reminder
of the days when grandpa’s whis
kers were his pride and joy.
Among those who already have
signed pledges to wear beards boost
ing the rodeo are Hiram Huser, E.
A. Sutermeister, Al Ingalls, Donald
Fruchey ,Charles Swank, Rob Dill
man, Walter Gratz, Maynard L.
Geiger, E. S. Lape, Bill Edwards,
Frank Marquart.
John Klay, Rev. Paul Cramer,
Howard Stauffer, Dick Troy, Clair
Leiber, Wilbur Fish, Charles Auker
man, Art Amstutz, Silas Diller, Wil
ford Geiger, T. F. Hill, Ralph
Reichenbach, Thomas J. Koontz, -Ed
Rice and Robert McCune.
Antique displays in downtown show
windows also will advertise the For
ty-niner rodeo. On display will be
old dishes, spinning wheels, old
Cleveland Minister Delivers
Class Address at Graduation
Exercises
Graduating Class This Year is
Largest in History of
Institution
Emphasizing the need of being
undismayed by failure, Dr. Bernard
C. Clausen, pastor of the Euclid
Avenue Baptist church, Cleveland,
urged a record Bluffton college
graduating class of 55 to select and
work diligently toward goals that
may be beyond our achievement, at
the 49th annual college commence
ment exercises Monday morning in
the First Mennonite church.
Choose to be significant in life by
setting impossible goals and then
giving generously of your talents in
attempting to achieve them, never
being ashamed or discouraged by
failure, the class speaker urged his
hearers.
The scientific approach of inventors
could well serve as our guide to liv
ing, Dr. Clausen said in reminding
his audience of Thomas Edison's 600
failures before developing a success
ful electric light bulb.
This year’s graduating class of 55
seniors is the largest in the history
of the college, and reflects the
heavy post-war influx of students.
Graduates who received degrees,
including those who will complete
their work this summer, are:
Bachelor of Arts
Robert Amstutz, Bluffton Galen
Basinger, Pandora: William Boorse,
Quakertown, Pa. Ruth Haenny,**
Beloit, Ohio Raymond Hammon.
Bluffton James Hamish, Bluffton
Virginia Hinkle, Lima. Roger Howe,
Bluffton. Helen Bohn Klassen, Bluff
ton Otto Klassen, Bluffton.
Vernon Lowenberg, Donnellson,
Iowa Betty’ Pannabecker, Peoria.
Ill. Charles Rufenacht, Bluffton
Amelia Schmidt, Carlock, Ill. Mar
jorie Schutz, Mountain Lake, Minn.
Stanley Stauffer, Palm, Pa. Myrtle
Wasser, Bedminster, Pa. Martha
Lee Yoder, Topeka, Ind. Burton
Yost, Lansdale, Pa. Clifford Zehr,
Kitchener, Ontario.
Bachelor of Science
Ralph Althaus, Bluffton Grace
(Continued on page 10)
Mrs. Noah Steiner
Rites On Thursday
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p. m. Thursday in Ebenezer
Mennonite church for Mrs. Ruth
Steiner, 57, wife of Noah P. Steiuer,
Bluffton stock buyer, who died late
Monday in Toledo St .Vincent’s hos
pital. Mrs. Steiner hud been ill
for 10 months.
Born in Allen county, Mrs. Stein
er had been a lifelong resident of
Bluffton and vicinity. She wras a
member of the Ebenezer Mennonite
church.
In addition to her husband, she
is survived by a son, Janies, Bluff
tpn a daughter, Janet, at home
and sister, Mrs. John Habegger,
Bluffton, and a brother, Amos Ger
ber, Bluffton.
The body will remain at the Paul
Diller funeral home until time for
the services Thursday aftrenoon.
Rev. Howard Landis, pastor of the
Ebenezer church, wil lofficiate at
the last rites. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BLUFFTON AND VICINITY
BLUFFTON, OHIO, THURSDAY. JUNE 2. 1949
Whiskers B’Gosh and Forty-niner Gold Rush to
Furnish Old Time Setting for July Fourth Rodeo
photographs of early Bluffton, etc.
Feature of pre-rodeo activity will
be a gigantic Forty-Niner parade,
Saturday night, July 2, -ith gaily
bedecked floats, horsenu old-time
and modern decorated bicycles, prai
rie schooners, covered wagons, new
and old automobiles ,tract rs, imple
ments, surreys, buckboards, old-time
threshing machines and other con
veyances and farm implements of
yester-year.
All persons in the parade will be
in the garb of gold-rush days, and
Editor’s Note—Thia
m«
of a series of articles to appear
in the Bluffton News dealing
with early Ohio history. Others
will 'appear in forthcoming
issues.
Worth A Summer
Sunday Drive
To the casual passer by, it only is
a little stone shack in a very small
and very old graveyard at the north
end of Fifth street, Upp Sandusky,
Wyandotte County. But to him in
the know, it well is worth the Sun
day’ drive in the fresh breath of
spring, just to gaze and wonder at
its colorful past.
The little stone hut is the tumble
down Wyandotte Mission, first built
of logs by Rev. James E. Finley, In
1821, then rebuilt of stone in 1823
and rebuilt in 1899 from its original
stones. The General Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
spent $2,000 to do that little job.
The graveyard where the mission
stands is the old burying-ground of
the Wyandottes, older than the mis
sion itself, filled with the graves of
the Christian Wyandottes, converts
of John Stewart and of Finley.
Stewart was preaching to the In
dians there as early as 1816.
Old Inwrnptions
Inscriptions from the markers
there include: ‘‘Between-the-logs,
died December, 1826, aged 50 years
“Sum-mun-de-wat, murdered Decem
ber 4, 1843, Buried in Wood County,
Ohio,” but later reburied in the little
mission cemetery: “Rev. John Stew
art, first, missionary to the Wyandot
tes, Died December 17, 1833, aged 37
years.” There are others, including
Rohn-yen-ness, who refrained from
killing Adam Poe, the famous Indian
fighter and Margaret Grey-eyes,
daughter of Chief Grey-eyes ana
later known as “Mother Solomon.”
She was the widow of John Solomon.
In the little mission house the
Indian maidens were taught to cook,
bake and sew outside it, the young
braves labored in field, at anvil and
bench, 'learning the trades of civiliza
tion. Thus began the first industrial
school on the continent.
Sum-mun-de-wat was* murdered
when on a hunting trip with his
family’ in Hancock County’. In the
evening three white men with axes
came to his camp and were hospit
ably entertained. After their supper
the Indian, according to custom,
knelt and prayed in his own langu
age, then laid down to sleep.
In the night the whites, who had
been so kindly treated, murdered
the {ndian and squaw with their axes
and looted the camp. They’ were ap
prehended but allowed to break jail.
White men seldom were tried, con
victed and executed for killing an
Indian.
Between-the-logs was born about
(Continued on page 10)
To Graduate At
Bowling Green U.
Carroll Tschiegg, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Amos Tschiegg of North Jack
son street will be graduated at com
mencement exercises of Bowling
Green State university, Friday morn
ing. He will receive the degree of
Bachelor of Science.
The graduating class of 482 is the
largest in history of the university.
The commencement speaker is Dr.
Ernest Tittle, minister of the First
Methodist church in Evanston, Ill.
BLUFFTON MARKETS
Wednesday Morning
Grain (bushel prices) Wheat
$2.12 corn $1.22 oats 63c soys
$2.07.
Poultry'—Heavy hens 26c leghorn
hens 23c heavy fryers, rocks, 3 lbs.
and up 27 heavy fryers, reds, 3 lbs.
and up 25c leghorn fryers 2 lbs.
and up, 22c.
Eggs—Large white 43c large
brown 42c medium white 37c
medium brown 36c pullets 30c.
Butterfat—57c.
women clerks in downtown stores
on the night of the parade will
wear sun bonnets and dresses of
the pioneer era.
Over $100 in cash prizes are offer
ed for the best parade entries, with
a first prize of $50 expected to spur
those planning floats and other pa
rade features.
Sponsoring this year’s rodeo are
the Bluffton Saddle Horse club,
Bluffton Business Men’s association,
Bluffton Recreation committee and
the Bluffton Community Sports
men's club.
High School Graduat
Puts High
Dr. Clyde Hissong, State
Director of Education is
Class Speaker
Exercises are Held in School
Gymnasium for 29 Seniors,
Thursday-
Importance of living a construct
ive life and discharging its duties
as well as individual capabilites
permit was urged on Bluffton High
school graduates in commencement
exercises Thursday night in the
school gymnasium-auditorium, by the
class speaker, Dr. Clyde Hissong,
state director of education.
In his subject, "The World In
Your Hands,” Dr. Hissong declared
that whatever your job, do it to
the best of your ability, and
stressed the importance of living in
a way that your individual integrity
never will be questioned.
We have to live with other per
sons in this world, and must be
aware of the responsibility of co
operation and getting along with
them, the speaker said, and we
(Continued on page 10)
High School Alumni
Hold Reunion Here
More than 100 Bluffton high
school alumni attended the 68th an
nual reunion dinner of the associa
tion at the high school cafeteria,
Friday night.
Numbers on the program included
invocation by Wilhelm Amstutz
group singing directed by Mabel
Steiner welcome by Edwin Rice,
president of the association and re
sponse by Robert Neuenschwander,
president of the incoming class.
Vocal solo by Treva Althaus
short talks by C. A. Arganbright
of Columbus, former superintendent,
of schools Robert Pogue of Cleve-|
land of the class of 1924 holding
its 25th reunion and John Hartzler
representing the class of 1929 hold
ing its 20th reunion. Byron Spang
ler of Celina, speaker of the even
ing took for his subject “Wise and
Otherwise.”
Following the dinner there was
dancing until midnight in the gym
nasium to music of Mack Finch’s
orchestra of Piqua.
Officers for the coming year are:
Pres., Robert Ewing vice pres.,
Mrs. Hiram Huser recording sec
retary, Miss Dorothy Greding cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Edgar
Cook treasurer, Leland Diller.
Among those from out of town
here for the occasion were:
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mitsch, Upper'
Sandusky Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Whisler, Oceanside, Calif. Miss
Kathleen Lugibihl, Chicago Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Howe, Dayton Mrs. John
Keller, Mrs. M. A. Mulvania, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Ludwig, Lima
Mr. and Mrs. Merl Gallant, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Bixel, Mr. and Mrs.
James Martin, Findlay.
Mr. and Mrs. James Basinger, La
fayette, Ind. Mrs. James Mayer,
Shelby Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schyl
lander, Erie, Mich. Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Garster, Leipsic Mr. and Mrs.
Orval Augsburger, Hopedale, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Spangler, Ce
lina Mr. and Mrs. John Hartzler,
Ashland Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Pogue, Cleveland C. A. Argan
bright, Columbus Capt. and Mrs.
Elbert Kibele, Dayton Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Hochstettler, Wharton.
Three From Here To
Graduate At Miami
Three Bluffton persons are among
the 657 graduating seniors who will
receive degrees at Miami university,
Oxford, Ohio, next Monday.
The graduates from this place are
Carlton C. Wilson, bachelor of ar
chitecture Maynard Amstutz, bache
lor of science in education, and Sarah
Louise Amstutz, bachelor of science
in secretarial studies.
Local Woman With
FHA On Motor Trip
Mrs. Grace Geary of Bluffton, home
economics instructor in the Mt. Cory
high school left Wednesday morning
with 26 Mt. Cory girls on a bus trip
thru southern Ohio.
The girls are members of the
Future Homemakers of America
group and Mrs. Geary is advisor to
the club. Also accompanying the
girls are the club mother, Mrs. Cecil
Flick and thq bus driver Albert Bau
man and Mrs. Bauman.
The group will visit plants in Day
ton and Cincinnati, also the Ruth
Lyons radio show in the latter city.
They will return home Saturday.
on Speaker
Value On Character
COLLEGE CAMPUS
IS THRONGED FOR
GRADUATION WEEK
Record Gathering of Alumni,
Former Students and
Visitors Here
Favorable Weather and Me
morial Week End Holiday
Bring Crowd
Bluffton college campus was filled
over the week end with what officials
said was one of the largest com-1
mencement crowds in the history of
the institution.
Class reunions and ground-break
ing ceremony for the new quarter
million dollar gymnasium-auditorium
drew many here, in addition to the
graduation exercises and May day
festivities.
Favorable weather together with
the week end Memorial day holiday
provided added inducements for those
planning to be here for part or all
of the events.
Among those from out of town
on the campus were:
Bloomngton, Ind.—Mr. and Mrs.
I Howard Baumgardner.
Greenwich—Milton and Ruth
Schaatz.
Smithville—Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Musser, Marrene, Margaret and Jim
Musser Phyllis Ramseyer, Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Berkey, Mr. and Mrs.
Al Ramseyer, Jr.
Kitchener, Ontario—Mr. and Mrs.
E. Zehr, Lester and Marjorie Zehr,
Elva Schantz, Phyllis Plummer,
Gladys and Rita Weber, Gwendolyn
Mader, Rev. Andrew Shelly.
Metamora, III.—Harold Schertz,
Paul Lehman.
Carlock Ill.—Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Schmidt, Herbert Schmidt.
Gridley, Ill.—Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Porzelius, Dorothy Porzelius.
Amherst—Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Ehr
man, Barbara Griffin.
Wakeman—Corrine Husted.
Wadsworth—Mr. and Mrs. Millard
Fretz, Mrs. Russell Daniels.
Rawson—Dr. and Mrs. Weldon
Diller.
Hilltown, Pa.—Norman Wisner.
Bedminster, Pa.—Chas. Wasser.
Berne, Ind.—Hiram Leichty, Mr.
and Mrs. C. H. Sprunger.
Gibson City, Ill.—Fred Soldner.
Dover—Phyllis Geiser, Loren Har
stine.
Ft. Wayne—Coyla Crow, Mr. ana
Mrs. Elmer Ramga.
Woodburn, Ind.—Irene Oyer.
Cleveland—Robt. Byers.
Palm, Pa.—Mr. and Mrs. Stewart
Stauffer.
Goshen, Ind.—Betty Lou Koerner,
Mr. and is. Ed Brookmeyer, Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Yoder, Jr.
(Continued on page 10)
To Get Degree From
Bowling Green Friday
Eugene Kohli, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hiram Kohli, north of Bluffton
will be graduated from Bowling
Green university at commencement
execrises Friday, with a class of
459, largest in history of the school.
His degree was bachelor of science
in education.
Specializing in geography he
was president during his senior year
of Upsilon chapter of Gamma Theta
Upsilon, national professional geo
graphic fraternity, a member of the
Future Teachers of America and
the Physical Education club and for
the past two years on the dean’s list
with a scholastic average.
Kohli has been hired next fall at
Glenwood Junior high school in
Findlay where he will be instructor
in geography and assistant athletic
coach.
Receives Degree At
O. N. U. Graduation
Wilhelm Amstutz II. son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Amstutz, north of
Bluffton was graduated in electrical
engineering at the commencement
exercises of Ohio Northern univers
ity at Ada, Sunday.
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CEREMONY
START OF C0Xe£
BUILDING PRC
President of Board of 1
Turns First Spadeful
Earth
Ceremony on Site of
Gymnasium-Auditorium
Start Soon
Ground breaking ceremonies’*
Bluffton college’s new $250,000
nasium-auditorium which will rt
sent the first new building prog
on the campus since 1928, highlit
ed annual commencement week at
vities and attracted a I irge croV
of college alumni and friends Satu
day afternoon.
Construction of the gymnasium, to
get under way early this summer,
marks the first college building pro
ject since the Musselman Memorial
library was erected beginning in the
fall of 1928.
The ceremony held on the site of
the new structure was climaxed
when J. 8. Slabaugh, president of
the board of trustees, turned the
first shovel of earth. Stakes
marked the exterior walls of the
new building, permitting those in
the audience to get a good idea of
the size of the structure.
Other features of Saturday’s busy
program included the alumni base
ball game in the morning class re
unions at noon the senior class
and box' burial programs annual
May Day festivities in which Janice
Welty was crowned queen and the
alumni banquet in the evening, fol
lowed by presentation of Moliere’s
celebrated play, “The Imaginary In
valid.”
Sunday’s activities were marked
by baccalaureate services for grad
uating seniors, addressed by Dr. L.
L. Ramseyer, president the presi
dent’s reception, and an evening
concert by the vesper choir.
Commencement exercises on Mon
day morning for a record senior
class of 55 concluded the crowded
week-end program.
Hiram Diller New
College Alumni Head
Hiram Diller was elected presi
dent of the Bluffton college alumni
association at the annua' alumni
banquet held Saturday evening at
Roll hall, in connection with com
mencement activities at the institu
tion.
Other alumni officers named at the
meeting include: W. O. Geiger, vice
president Mrs. Harvey Bauman,
secretary Harry Yoder, executive
secretary Oliver Diller, trustee, full
term Vern Conrad, to fill the un-
expired term of Dr.- M. R. Bixel on
the board of trustees and Mrs. Le
land Diller, representative to the
women’s council.
Stanley Basinger, retiring alumni
president,^ was master of ceremonies
for the program which included
short talks by Robert Amstutz,
president of the graduating class
J. E. Amstutz, class of 1909 Ruth
Strubhar Yeck, class of 1919 John
Ramseyer, class of 1929, and James
F. Miller, class of 1939.
President L. L. Ramseyer also ap
pealed on the program, and special
music included vocal selections by
the Five Shades and a vocal duet
by Mr. and Mrs. Roger Howe.
Memorial were listed for the fol
lowing graduates who died during
the past year:
Ralph West ’16, Mrs. Selma Som
mer ’16, Charles Trachsel ’17, and
Dr.' M. R. Bixel ’22.
Births
The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr. and m/s. Reymundo Guzman,
Pandora, a girl, Anjelina, last Wed
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Arrington,
McComb, a girl, Paulette Ann, Thurs
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Snyder, Arl
ington, a boy, Gregory Allen, Thurs
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jerger, Bluff
ton, a girl, Constance, Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pepple, Sr.,
Waynesfield, a boy, William Charles,
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Gallant, Bluff
ton, a boy, Darryl Keith, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Augsburger,
Bluffton, a girl, Nancy Ann, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Skinner,
Lafayette, a boy, Gregory Lon, Sun
day.
Mr. and Bernard Green, Findlay, a
girl, Susan Beth, Sunday.
Mr. and Mi’s. Evan R. Burkholder,
Col. Grove, a girl, born at St. Rita’s
hospital, Lima, Saturday.