Note: The Icon acquired a manuscript titled “A Brief History of Bluffton’s Industrial Developments.” This publication was prepared by the classes in Marketing and Small Business Administration from Bluffton College, under the director of Dr. Howard Raid. Publication date is May 1959. We’ve updated some current addresses so viewers may identify locations.
A homemade muzzleloader rifle is a lone reminder of a once well-known foundry and inventor’s shop operated in Bluffton by the Benroth brothers, Albert, Jule and Ferdinand.
Vicki Mills can help. Miss Vicki’s Music Studio, 2613 State Route 81 (West North Avenue), Ada, has a range of summer classes for youth through adults. For more information contact Mills at 419-679-8259. Or CLICK HERE for the studio website.
Here’s the summer schedule:
Tuesday evenings – June 13 to Aug. 8
(no classes June 20 or July 4)
Choir (grades 1-3) – 5:30 to 6:45 p.m.
Choir (grades 4-8) - 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Who else in the world would have a strawberry hotline other than Jerry and Nancy Suter?
You don’t need to call the hotline yet. Here’s a progress report on those red juicy fruits that will soon ripen in a field on Bixel Road between Bluffton and Pandora.
Jerry says that although earlier this month the ground temperature hit around 29 degrees he’s confident that strawberries will be at the red Suter Produce stands by early June.
