Oct 31
Before she became a comedian, Phyllis Diller was on staff at Bluffton Presbyterian
PHOTOS from Travis family archive: LEFT) Betsey Travis Angus and Phyllis Diller. RIGHT) Eloise and Boyd Travis with Phyllis Diller. Story...
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May 3
Home of fine foods and good service
When Beaverdam was the crossroads of America P-K Truck Stop Restaurant in Beaverdam once stood at the cross roads of America When U.S. 30...
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Apr 26
1940s Bluffton residents' brush with history
Involving Tomoyuki Yamashita, Albert Einstein, F.D. Roosevelt, George Marshall, Mickey Rooney and Carl Spaatz In November 1945 Bluffton...
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Apr 11
80 years ago it was "fast time" vs. "slow time"
Daylight Saving Time was a phrase foreign to the general public, and the time change was determined by each locality Here’s a thought:...
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Apr 9
April 1949 - Bluffton watches eclipse of moon
Described as the most perfectly visible here in more than a century Historically, April is apparently eclipse month in Bluffton. From the...
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Mar 19
When the trout derby was born
Sportsmen's Club and could be Lions members cleaned up the Buckeye This photo from the mid-to-late 1940s shows a number of people who...
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Mar 13
Meet the Bluffton Travel Class
Many familiar last names including Triplett, Hauenstein, Diller, Basinger, Hirscher, Baumgartner and others The Travel Class was one of...
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Mar 6
Meet Isaac Newton Good and his twin Abraham
Bluffton News editor Ted Biery had lots to say about them; They may have been the oldest living twins in Ohio No one denies Bluffton has...
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Feb 14
Meet Bluffton Boys Scouts of 1941
Karl Gable, scoutmaster and Paul Wingate, assistant scoutmaster Meet the Bluffton Boy Scouts of 1941 with Karl Gable scoutmaster and Paul...
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Dec 19, 2023
When Santa lived in Bluffton
He went under the name of Lazarus Basinger Lazarus "Lotzy" Basinger, a Bluffton fixture who died in 1964, was known by all the youngsters...
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Dec 16, 2023
Bluffton - home of the 5 cent cigar
Truly a 10 cent quality - meanwhile watch the 1940 Masons on parade It’s 1940. Members of the Bluffton Masonic Lodge parade down Main...
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Dec 14, 2023
Bluffton's brushes with history
And, some surprisingly famous persons who once called Bluffton home Have you experienced a brush with history? Over the decades it seems...
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Dec 7, 2023
45s and long-play records on Main Street
74 Christmases ago a Bluffton Main Street business sold both sizes of records If you’ve ever shopped in Prosser and Prosser, 119 N. Main...
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Dec 6, 2023
The next selection on the program...
Meet members of the Bluffton High School orchestra during the 1948-49 school year The strings program is among the oldest continuing...
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Nov 6, 2023
1943-44 at Bluffton High School
Hi-Y members included familiar names: Bixel, Triplehorn, Herr, Klay, Augsburger, Steiner, Ramseyer, Reichenbach, Stratton, Gratz,...
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Oct 31, 2023
In 1947 Beaverdam said "Boo!"
Halloween Carnival benefit for the Community Fire Association Seventy-six Halloweens ago the Beaverdam Community Fire Association said,...
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Oct 19, 2023
July 1947 - One month after Roswell
"Strange object seen here like flying saucers" Bet you didn’t know that a “strange illuminated object” was sighted in rural Bluffton. It...
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Oct 5, 2023
Fill 'er up at The Swiss Inn
South of Bluffton at Gratz Crossing This is the Dixie Highway, or “old” U.S. 25, south of Bluffton, in 1944. It was a brick highway when...
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Sep 7, 2023
August, 1947: A sound foreign to Bluffton's ears
The first-ever diesel locomotive passed through town on a test run Sunday’s run of the demonstrator was witnessed by only a handful of...
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Sep 5, 2023
75 years ago Bluffton was hot for "ham"
It even had an amateur radio club Seventy-five years ago, Bluffton was an active player in the ham (aka amateur radio) airwaves. It had...
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