The Bluffton news. [volume], May 25, 1950, Image 9

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THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1950
ATTENTION!
FOOT SUFFERERS
CONDITIONS
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A representative trained by
the Foot Health Institute
makers of Health Spot Shoes
and also trained by Scholl’s
Foot Appliance & Remedy
Mfg. Co., in attendance at
all times.
Weak feet roll to the inside,
cramping nerves and blood
vessels, causing poor posture
and related ailments that ef
fect YOUR ENTIRE BODY.
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and blood vessels—often re
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long standing. Be SURE TO
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intifically Fitted with X-ray
Service
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Mainly
PeManal
Calendar crowded with top billing
events for the next fortnight—at
hand is the high school graduation
Thursday for 45 seniors who are
rounding out their education with a
trip to Washington next week—every
youth should visit the nation’s capi
tal and there is no better time than
in connection with high school grad
uation and Bluffton getting
slicked up for Decoration Day—
Maple Grove cemetery being given
its final touches in preparation for
the holiday Poppy day comes
on Saturday, of course you'll wear
one and thanks to the Legionnaires
who see that flags fly from graves
of departed veterans—there are 177
resting places decorated by Bluff
ton post—Armin Hauenstein of
World War I has been in charge of
this, taking it over
who looked after it
and civic and
invited to join in
Maple Grove cemetery next Tuesday
morning to pay tribute to those who
gave their last full measure of de
votion veterans of the first
World War passing middle age and
filling the ranks of the Grand Army
men of Robert Hamilton post—that
gallant band who still live in mem
ory of the older generation and
younger veterans of a later World
conflict carrying on in the Memorial
day parade where their fathers
marched thirty years ago and
Bluffton college getting ready to roll
out the welcome mat to crowds of
homecomers on the occasion of its
50th anniversary next week—and
orchids to Prof. H. W. Berky, gen
eral chairman of the committee on
arrangements one of the real
oldtimers is Charlie Dillman of the
class of 1903—he enrolled for a
course in bookkeeping and commer
cial studies when the institution op
ened its doosr back in November,
1900—Bluffton college has come a
long way since then, when the town
looked askance with curiosity at the
new development out in Eaton’s
woods—a single building on a wood
ed knoll surrounded by cow pastures
—led by a man with vision who had
the courage amid discouragements
that well might have daunted a less
resolute soul to lay the foundations
almost singlehanded and confidently
expect great things in the future.
from his father
for many years
patriotic bodies
the parade to
Never comes the last of May but
some of the oldtimers recall what
happened 67 years ago last Monday
■—on May 22, 1883, when the Bluff
ton area was covered with a foot
of snow. It was an unusually early
spring and corn was up and trees
were in full foliage. So heavy was
he snowfall that it broke down
limbs of trees and some of the
youngsters celebrated by taking a
bobsled ride through the country
where apple trees were in bloom.
The snowfall, however, disappeared
rapidly without any extensive dam
age.
Concert of the College Men’s Glee
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rive home the
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Again this year, more people are buying Chevrolets
than any other make of car. And the reason is—more
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
club this Wednesday night follows
an old Bluffton tradition when the
glee club programs were highlights
in the college social calendar.
College glee clubs occupy a unique
place musically which no other group
can fill—reflecting the carefree days
of the campus, making up in warmth
and enthusiasm any shortcomings in
technical finish as their songs, heri
tage of untold generations of stu
dents roll back the years and bring
to listeners, for a fleeting hour, the
golden aura of youth.
are coming on
grown on the
south of Bluff
and his son
Hothouse tomatoes
the Bluffton market
R. A. Stratton farm
ton where Stratton
James are operating a big glassed-in
greenhouse covering a quarter-acre
of land. This is the first production
of their project started early in
March when they set out 28,000
plants under glass. They have two
greenhouses each 28 by 200 feet and
specialize in tomato growing. The
younger Stratton is no novice in the
business, having had experience in
indoor tomato growing with a
establishment.
Toledo
season
has a
in his
And speaking of out of
delicacies, Maynard Geiger
quart of mushrooms frozen
home locker to be enjoyed at some
future time. He found the mush
rooms—30 of them—last Saturday,
had enough for the family’s supper
that evening and put the remainder
in cold storage.
Good response from Bluffton flow
er growers when we asked last week
if there were any Japanese cherry
trees in this vicinity other than
those which we named. The Roy
Lehmans, northwest of Bluffton
have a weeping Japanese cherry
tree, a bit different from those here
in town, which was in full bloom
last week. And Mrs. Sarah Leh
man, Roy’s mother has a red mag
nolia tree, unusual in this area ...
and the lovely lavender blossoms of
that wisteria tree on the lawn of
Walter Niswander’s on Grove street
atraced much attention over the
week-end.
Biggest construction in the Bluff
ton area this summer is the new
gymn asi um -aud itor ium
lege campus. More
goes into two ordinary
quired to build forms
crete for the bleachers.
on the Col
lumber than
houses is re
to pour con-
Congratulations to Ed Good—on
his 62nd birthday anniversary Sun
day. Twelve years ago when he
reached the 50 year mark Ed did
a mile jaunt around the College cin
der track in less than seven min
utes.
It wasn’t exactly ships that pass
in the night—but anyway Forrest
Steinman and Leonard Wingate at a
lumberman’s convention in Cincin
nati last week met Ernie Bigelow,
former Bluffton pastor who was
down from Norwalk to attend the
General Assembly of the Presby
terian church. The group met in an
elevator of the Netherlands Plaza
hotel and forthwith proceeded to
hold an informal Bluffton get-to
gether.
It was supposed to be a picture of
Calvin Coolidge that was one of the
stage props at the high school sen
ior play Monday and Tuesday nights.
However, one wasn’t
they substituted one
McIntire, Presbyterian
was supposed to bear
lance, howbeit rather
one was a Vermont
the other
crat.
available, so
of Leonard
pastor which
some resemb
distant, since
Republican and
Carolina Demo-
a North
young daughter of the
Beverly,
Gene Benroths has received a “thank
you” letter from Jean Stirling of
Sydenham, England, in response to
a doll which she sent last holidays
with the Tide of Toys. The Bluffton
girl’s doll was identified by her name
written on a slip of paper and pin
ned to the doll’s clothing. The
English girl lives in a children’s
home where many of the gifts were
distributed.
Your own farm woods is the best,
and cheapest, source of building
material for farm construction.
FEDERAL LAND
BANK LOANS
IN
Alien, Mercer,
Auglaize Counties
4%
33 Years
Fees or Commissions
made to buy land, pay
make improvements,
Loans
debts,
buy livestock, mach^ery,
pay any or all
Mercery
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Secretary and Treasurer
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Celina, Ohio, Phone 1199
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in
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