Feb 8, 2023
Bluffton drinks coffee here today
But at the turn of an earlier century was a pharmacy, jewelry store, wallpaper shop and a place to buy stringed instruments - not to...
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Feb 3, 2023
Who really won?
1959 Bluffton vs Lafayette - 64 seasons ago this month a one-point game became an enormous argument PHOTOS OF BOTH TEAMS AT THE BOTTOM OF...
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Feb 2, 2023
It's 1959 in Bluffton
Here are the members of the Order of the Eastern Star, Bluffton Chapter 380 Here's a photograph of Bluffton Order of Eastern Star,...
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Feb 1, 2023
99 Bluffton HS senior class plays ago
A cast with lots of familiar last names... Geiger, Steiner, Yoakam, Niswander and others It's the 1923-24 school year. • Calvin Coolidge...
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Jan 27, 2023
Bluffton's summer of '44
Boy Scout Troop 56 ready for cam It’s the summer of 1944. Bluffton Boy Scout Troop 56 poses for a photo on the steps of the elementary...
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Jan 25, 2023
It's October 1950...at the Alpha Gamma Club
Bluffton's finest dresses up for party This was an Alpha Gamma event and "come as you are" was not an option. This group included many of...
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Jan 24, 2023
It's the '55-56 non-county champs
Ask Ron Geiser, Spike Berry, Ron Lora, Bill Herr, or Marvin Diller about this team's success Sixty-seven basketball season ago this...
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Jan 23, 2023
Classic with a capital "C"
Photo tucked away in a 1965 Bluffton HS yearbook Yes, it's a classic pose. And, important enough to be spread over two pages. Here's a...
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Jan 20, 2023
Peter and Elizabeth Suter Schumacher
Click here for an index to families listed in Our Swiss Connection. In 1839, three years after the arrival of the pioneer Schumacher...
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Jan 19, 2023
44 seasons ago this team went 7-3 in NWC
Bluffton High School girls' team of 1978-79 Here's the Bluffton High School girls' varsity basketball team from 1978-79 season. Front...
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Jan 13, 2023
Yes, Dillinger was here
Bullet holes in building at 101 N. Main St., from the 1933 robbery You've walked past these John Dillinger bullet holes countless times,...
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Jan 5, 2023
Remembering Raymon Lewis 1940-2023
1950s-era Pirate all-star athlete in football, basketball and track Raymon Lewis - number 31 Raymon Lewis, who died on Jan. 3, 2023, at...
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Jan 4, 2023
Here's an 1897-era Bluffton publicity photo
And, you'd have to go to Greenfield Village to see a locomotive like this one What a scene! And, it's a marketing photo, promoting many...
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Jan 3, 2023
John and Barbara Steiner Schumacher
Note: This is our first Swiss Connection feature after a several-month absence. This is the 47th feature in this series of...
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Jan 2, 2023
Bluffton's first "selfie"
Will Triplett, pioneer village photographer took this photo of himself; he used a cable connected to the shutter of his camera Few...
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Dec 30, 2022
Ken Cookson updates us on the gas station next to Pure Oil
Turn your calendar back to the late 1960s and read this column The following is a letter from former Bluffton resident Ken Cookson. It is...
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Dec 29, 2022
Only 59 Pirate seasons ago
When this Varsity B photo was taken during the 1963-64 school year Here are members of the Bluffton High School Varsity B during the...
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