Here's a photo indentified only as "County Champions" BHS 108 ------ 30. We take this to mean a Bluffton football team in 1904 was the best squad in Allen County, scoring 108 points and having only 30 points scored on them. We don't know how many games they played or who were their opponents.
For example, if they played five games, they averaged 21.6 points (three touchdowns per game) against only 1 for their opponents.
Here's an English Lutheran Church confirmation class taken in the mid-1950s. Lutheran viewers can help us identify everyone in the photo and perhaps place a year on it. We can identify two of the youth, from left, Craig Edwards, Irene (Basinger) Althaus,_______ Schmidt and unidentified. Can a viewer help us and possibly name the minister? Leland Gerber took this photo.
Rev. U.S. Gottshall was pastor of all three Bluffton area Mennonite Churches. This post card, printed shortly after 1905 show the Ebenezer Mennonite at the bottom left, the St. John Mennonite, bottom right and First Mennonite top left, with Rev. Gottshall.
Here's another 1961 Bluffton centennial photo. It's an old-fashioned grocery story display. That's Marlin Gerber (the guy who brings blueberries to Bluffton each summer), Mrs. Ezra Moser and Ron (in front) and Dan (in back) Morrison, brothers of Denny Morrison of Bluffton.
Ezra Moser works an apple peeler and a wooden vise during a demonstration at the 1961 Bluffton centennial. Larry Badertscher is pressing the apples to produce apple cider. Leland Gerber photo.
Here's another Leland Gerber photo from Bluffton's 1961 centennial. This is the "Koontz" family, according to the inscription on the back of the photo. The Icon invites viewers to identify persons in the vehicle and tell us about the vehicle.
