Meet students attending the Phillips country school in 1926
Bib overalls were in fashion went this one-room country school photo was taken. Students attending the one-room Phillips School in rural Bluffton posed for a school photo during the 1926 school year.
Bib overalls were in fashion went this one-room country school photo was taken. Students attending the one-room Phillips School in rural Bluffton posed for a school photo during the 1926 school year.
Front row from left, Carl Fett, Dick Leiber, Bob Andrews, Kenny Chidester, Harold Schick, Evan Leiber, Charles Burger, Fred Andrews and Orma Stettler.
Second row from left, Zelma Pfeiffer, Mary Manahan, Gladys Fett, Dorothea Stettler, Azetta Burger and Obler Leatherman.
Top row from left, Gerald Chidester, Charlotte Basinger (teacher), John Manahan, Merle Scoles, Ralph Manahan and Fred Ball.
Funny thing is, I still wear my Bib Overalls when I volunteer at the Allen County Museum and with the Nickel Plate 765 Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society “All Aboard” Love the old Photo of the Phillips School Children, many Bluffton Names!