Officials at Citizens National Bank announce the promotion of Angela Recker and Scott Sheipline to vice presidents of credit analysis.
Responsibilities for their positions include underwriting commercial and agricultural loan requests and analyzing financial information to assist with lending decisions.
Two significant Bluffton history books are available as reprints this summer from the Swiss Community Historical Society, according to Phil Kingsley, society president.
The books, "Historical Events of the Mennonite Settlement in Allen and Putnam Counties, Ohio," by P.B. Amstutz (1925 - with maps added to this reprinting by Keith Sommer), and "Life in the Bluffton and Pandora, Ohio Community, 1877-1910: Excerpts from the Bluffton News," by Edgar Schumacher (1997), are the two books.
Christine Habegger Purves offers this interesting story about proper clothing. The story is reprinted from the Spring newsletter of the Swiss Community Historical Society.
By Christine Habegger Purves
There was a good bit of argument among the early settlers from Mennonite backgrounds as to proper clothing.
My grandmother, Caroline Riesen, married to Christian Baumgartner, liked a bit of lace at the wrists of her plain clothing. She may have added some colored braid to her daughters' aprons.
Dr. Daniel Kirk of Bluffton Foot and Ankle will hold a toenail clinic at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center on North Main Street.
The clinic, open to area seniors, is at 10 a.m., Monday, July 25. Persons must call for appointments and there is a $10 charge. The Center's number is 419-358-8971.
