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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1975
Page
3
Local column lists church visits and family gatherings in Bluffton area. Residents include Menno Zuercher, Nussbaum family, Geisers, Amstutzs, and Begleys. A number of relatives and friends visit, travel for missions, attend graduations, and hospital updates at Dunlap and Wooster Community Hospitals.
Vesta Sommer returns to her teaching post near the Niger Nigeria border after a months long furlough with her mother in Kidron. She brings four drums of clothing and supplies donated by churches and friends with support from SIM. She volunteers in a religious knowledge class for Christian students in a Muslim area, teaching 12 pupils when she returns.
Miss Sommer, a single white teacher, has served as a missionary in Nigeria since 1941 and returns from New York Wednesday to continue teaching for two more years in the Universal Primary Education program. She will visit locals during furloughs and speak on her experiences. Open Church rites mark weddings of Ellie Himes and Jerry Hartzler, and Jan Nussbaum and Dean Falb, both on Saturday June 14 with music at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. respectively.
Rainfall totaled 4.16 inches for the week ending June 5 with May contributing 2.39 inches. Highest temperatures reached 78 on May 30 and 31, while the low was 48 on June 2. May’s average was 62.4 degrees and the weekly average was 64.4 degrees. Last year the week’s rainfall was 0.10 inch and May’s total was 4.94 inches. two years ago rainfall reached 1.52 inches.
Ronald Hahn notes weekly rainfall and May totals with melt and snowfall figures. The text recalls McKinney Texas May rainfall of 34.35 inches in 1881 as the state’s greatest monthly precipitation on record.
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