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Youngsters at Bluffton Child Development Center have way too much fun. Here, two youths, decide that taking a tumble is the best way to spend the afternoon. Looks like fun and it is fun.

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Emmanuel United Church of Christ will hold a fish fry from 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11, at the church located at 8375 Phillips Road.

The all-you-can-eat fish fry includes: potato salad, calico beans, baked beans, cole slaw, cranberry salad, taco salad, broccoli salad, layer salad, perfection salad, macaroni salad, apple salad, green bean casserole, hot cheese potatoes, pickled eggs, macaroni and cheese, cherry dessert, cakes, cookies, pie and mixed fruit.

Tickets are $8 for adults and childen 10 and under $4.

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Members of the Bluffton University Social Work Club will go trick-or-canning during Bluffton’s trick-or-treat festivities.

Social Work majors will be going door to door asking for donations of canned foods, dried foods and hygiene products from 6-8:30 p.m. on  Thursday, Oct. 27.

Wagon and carriage shop on Rail Road Street opened in 1975

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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 location.

Fisher Brothers
Carriage and Wagon Works

A wagon and carriage shop once operated in Bluffton.

A May 25, 1875, Bluffton News article follows:

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Readers of the Icon's Maple Grove ghost story will find this business card (we're showing the front and back) of interest.

It's the card of M.M. "Dode" Murray who was one of the Murray quadruplets - the only ones ever born in Bluffton. Here are three, at the time known as the Murray tripletts. Lloyd, the fourth brother died at birth.

The Murray tripletts were nicknamed Med, Hod and Dode. M.M., in the business card, was mayor of Bluffton from 1918 to 1922. He was also for a time, Bluffton postmaster.

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Meet CHRS MSN. The Icon spotted this plate on a red Chrysler 300 S in the Mennonite Memorial Home parking lot in Bluffton. It has a Hancock County sticker. If Chris is viewing this, please tell us the meaning of this plate.

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