This week celebrates the 140th anniversary of St. John's United Church of Christ. Here is a photo of the congregation's centennial committee, taken in 1973.
Front, from left, Meredith Stepleton, Rhoda Matter, correspondence; Silas Diller, general chairman; La Donna Derringer, secretary; Sidney C. Stettler, history chairman and booklet chairman; Leota Badertscher, church publications.
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Don Steinman from Arlington, found this sign in a antique store in pretty bad shape. He had a fellow restore it for him. Don is relation to the Steinman's from the lumber company and is also the editor and president of the Eagle Creek Historical Organization clubs newsletter in Arlington.
Steinman Lumber Company's Bluffton office was on the site of Riley Creek Mercantile on Cherry Street.
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Here's Silas Diller of Geiger and Diller's men's clothing store with BHS student Sue Neiswander (Amstutz) in a 1970 Bluffton High School yearbook advertisement.
Geiger and Diller's store was located where the former Deer Creek Shoppes was located on North Main Street.
Dean's Arco Sinclair, once a filling station in Bluffton, serviced customers at the corner of College and Main. The Bluffton Public Library parking lot now covers the location of the station.
Here's an advertisement from Dean's in the 1970 Bluffton High School Buccanneer.
Once upon a time in Bluffton there was Crow's 5 and Dime. It was originally on South Main Street in what today is the lobby of Citizens National Bank. It later moved to what today is Grove's Bears store.
Here's an advertisement for Crow's from the 1970 Bluffton High School yearbook.
Can Icon viewers identify the three women in the photo?
Here's an advertisement in the 1970 Bluffton High School Buccaneer. Millie Ingalls is on the left. We'll let Icon viewers identifiy the other threein the photo.
Ingalls Restaurant was located where Tu Puebo Mexican Restaurant, 142 N. Main St., is today.
