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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1893
Page
6
Local notes cover visits by Mrs Dailey Higginsville and others, upcoming band concert, sales and auctioneers profits, and various notices from Wells county including weather, church, school moves, oil leases, farm sales, and a swindle alert about wagon tongue patents.
Memorial from Bluffton Indiana lodge dated August 11 1863 notes the death July 27 1893 of J P Robertson. It praises him as a devoted husband and indulgent father and requests hall mourning draping records public notice to bereaved family and city papers. Committee members listed are E BARTLEMAY LO P Kooxtz and L L Martz.
Tomorrow at 7 50 Os sian Liberty Center and Bluffton brass bands perform a free concert on the courthouse square. The program includes marches and polkas with solo pieces and multiple named composers and performers listed among the readable items.
Wells County mourns Joseph Lesh born Berks County Pennsylvania March 29 1835 who died after months of nervous prostration at his Rockcreek Township farm He married Sarah Lesh on October 4 1860 and left eight children The Lutheran community at Horeb Church will conduct his funeral this afternoon with burial in the adjacent cemetery.
LaVergne Stevens and Miss Gusta Wentz surprised friends by announcing they wed Monday evening August 7 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Walmer on South Main Street. They planned to visit Toledo and Michigan relatives and the World's Fair before returning home in about two weeks.
A sequence of fires hit Bluffton, destroying the barns of John DeWitt in West Bluffton, Fred Foust in South Bluffton, and John Flowers on the southeast side. Water shortages hindered fighting the flames, prompting residents to seek expansion of the water works for firefighting.
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