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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
Bluffton SchoOlboy OF 188O's Returns
To Town Friday For Visit With Friends

Activities in Bluffton of more than
a half century ago were recalled
when William Woodbridge, of Long
Beach, Calf, visited in town Friday
for the second time since he left
the community in 1886. His first
visit was at the turn of the century
when he was a guest at the Judge
Eaton residence.
His father, Morton Woodbridge,
was section foreman of the old Lake
Erie & Western, now the Nickel
Plate railroad and taught the fine
points of the work to the late Her
man Wittkosfki, later Herman De
Witt, who succeeded Woodbridge as
foreman of the section crew when
the family moved west.
William Woodbridge together with
his brothers John and George at
tended the Bluffton schools from
1880 to 1885. John met an untimely
death while serving as station agent
at Stevensville, Montana, and George
died in San Francisco in 1895. vii.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
ENTERS MILITARY SERVICE

At this period of his life it became
evident that Virginia was likely to
be plunged into the war between the
English and the French. The col
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
George Washington Preferred Farming
To Perplexities OF Public Service

onv was therefore divided into four
districts. An officer, called an ad-
iuctant general, was appointed for
each district. Young Washington
was given the appointment of super
vising officer of one of the districts.
He was given the rank of major
with a salary of 150 pounds year.
Washington served his country for
five years in these frontier struggles
at the end of which he was given
the rank of colonel. When the peace
of the frontier was assured Wash
ington retired to private life.
He was married to Mrs. Martha
Custis on Jan. 6, 1859. Both being
of aristocratic lineage and the groom
now a famous military leader, the
wedding was one of the outstanding
social events of the colony.
Mt. VERNON
He took his bride to his fashion
able estate at Mt. Vernon which
Washington himself describes as sit
uated in "a high, healthy country;
in a latitude between the extremes of
heat and cold, on one of the finest
rivers in the world-a river well
stocked with various kinds of fish at
all seasons of the year, and in the
spring with shad, herring, bass, carp,
sturgeon, etc., in abundance. The
borders of the estate are washed by
more than ten miles of tide-water.' .
The facts of his life from this
point on are known to every person
who has studied American history:
How the colonies became aroused
over the misdeeds of the English
how Congress voted to raise an army
for the defense of American liberty;
how George Washington, the colonial
colonel was named commander-in-
chief of all the continental forces.
WAR WITH ENGLAND
Following the Declaration of Inde-
pendence by Congress in 1776 Wash
ington made all preparations for the
struggle with Britain, the American
Revolutionary War. Faced with in
surmountable difficulties he showed
his organization ability and military
genius in directing the long weary
campaign to a successful conclusion
He was given tremendous ovations
after the achievement of victory anc
a grateful country elevated him tt
the presidency in April of 1889
After two strenuous terms he retired
from public service in the spring o.
1897 and settled down on his beloved
farm at Mt. Vernon to enjoy it:
beauties and to relax from the ankle
ties of political life.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
What You Should
Know About the
Income Tax

In the event of failure to make
and file an income tax return as re-
quired by law within the prescribed
time, a certain per cent of the
amount of the tax is required to be
added to the tax unless failure to
file the return within the prescribed
time is shown to the satisfaction of
the Commissioner to be due to reas-
enable cause and not to willful neg
lect.
The amount to be added to the tax
is per cent if the failure is for
more than thirty days, with an addi-
tional per cent for each additional
thirty days or fraction thereof dur
ing which failure to file a return
continues, not to exceed 25 per cent
in the aggregate.
A taxpayer who files a tardy re-
turn and wishes to avoid the addi-
ton to the tax for delinquency must
make an affirmative showing of all
facts, alleged as a reasonable cause
for failure to file the return on time,
in the form of an affidavit which
should be attached to the return.
Alleged ignorance of the law does
not constitute reasonable cause for
delinquency.
Taxpayers should make every eff
fort to file their returns within the
time prescribed by law and thus
avoid the possibility of the additions
to the tax for delinquency in filing
returns.
Do not forget that single persons
or married persons not living with
husband or wife, who earn as much
as $14.43 a week for the So weeks
of the year, and married persons liv-
ing together who have aggregate
earnings of as much as $28.85 a
week for the year, are required to
file returns.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
Boy Scout Notes
Troop 56
By Robert Stratton

Merit badges passed during the
last week: Maurice Kohl, Zoology,
reading, pubic health; Robert STRAIT
ton, reading; Chas. Tripplehorn, To-
ology; Robert Obery, Chemistry.
Passed swimming for athletics at
Lima Y. M. c. A. aturday-Maurice
Kohl, Dean Niswander, Chas. Trip
plehorn.
Troop So will gather newspapers and
magazines this coming Saturday with
patrol leaders Robert Oberly, Otto
Klassen, Harry Minck and Chas.
Tripplehorn in charge.
Malcolm Basinger was taken into
Troop Sc with a candlelight tender
foot investiture Monday and was Civ
en- tenderfoot badge. Malcolm came
to the meeting wearing his new uni
form.
Robert Stratton was in charge of
fire drill at the meeting Monday night
to pass the firemanship merit badge.
All of the boys were out of the church
in 20 seconds.
Troop 56 is forming an emergency
service corps which is an intensified
tion of the Boy Scouts service pro-
gram. 1t is composed of First Glass
scouts Is years of age or older who,
having met certain merit badge re-
quirements, can also meet certain
minimum standards of physical abil-
ity and scout training essential for
special kinds of service.
Individual scouts may qualify as
corps members. Applicants must be
in good physica. condition and be able
ito run one mile in eight and one half
minutes, climb an 18 foot rope hand
over hand in Is seconds and tie the
following knots correctly: square,
two half bitches, taunt line hitch,
bowline on the blight, sheet bend,
Glove hitch, bowline, catspaw and
| blackwell hitch. He must also have
the following merit badges: First
Aid, Pioneering, Personal Health,
Firemanship, Public Health, Safety,
Life Saving and Rowing.
The following boys have passed the
| following tests:
Robert Oberly-mi:e, knots, first
aid, personal health, public health,
safety, life saving.
John Schmidt-knots, first aid, per-
sonal health, public health, safety, life
saving.
Bill Amstutz-miie, knots, first aid,
pioneering, personal health, public
health, safety.
Richard Oberly-mile, knots, first
aid, pioneering, public health, person
al health.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19

More than $50 books have been
collected in Bluffton for the Victory
Book campaign to give the soldier
boys adequate reading materials, it
was announced the first of the week
by Miss Ocie Anderson, librarian.
Members of the two Boy Scout
troops have been collecting the books
and will continue to do so when the
need arises. Residents of the rural
areas together with those who have
been missed in the solicitations have
been urged to give books in the cam
paign.
This may be done by contracting
Miss Anderson who will arrange
with the scouts for the collection of
the books.
The state of Ohio has been as
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
Lenten Season In Preparation For
Easter Begins This Ash Wednesday

Opening of the Lenten season, in
preparation for Easter, began this
Wednesday in an observance known
in the religious world as Ash We'd
nesday.
The Lenten period is a fast of 40
week days observed by the Roman
Catholic church and many of the
Protestant denominations. 1t was
not until $40 that the date was fixed
for the fast to start on Ash We'd
nesday and to continue through Holy
Saturday.
SACKcLoTH AND ASHES
The name Ash Wednesday has a
general reference to the penitential
sackcloth and ashes SO frequently
spoken of in the Old Testament. In
the Roman church there is rite OBJ
served on this day in which the
priest places ashes on the forehead
of the communicates as they kneel
at the altar rails.
As he does this he says, "Memen-
to, homo, quia pulvis es, ct in pill
ferem reverteris" (Remember, man,
thou art dust, and unto dust thou
shalt returns). The ashes are OBJ
tanned by burning the palm branches
consecrated in the church on the
Palm Sunday of the year previous.
Gradually it came to be the Gus
tom of friends and relatives to mani
fest their humility by joining the
penitents, expressing a similar con-
triton in their outward guise and
offering their foreheads for the
ashes. In time the number grew SO
large that it was made necessary to
administer the ashes to the whole
congregation in a single rite, the
form used at the present time.
LENTEN SEASON
Ash Wednesday was not always in
cluded within the Lenten period. Ir
the fifth and sixth centuries Lent
began with the succeeding Sunday
and lasted six weeks. Omitting Sun.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
GENERAL
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Departed this life, on the 14th Dec,
1899. Ht, 68.

Departed this life, on the 14th Dec,
1899, Et, 68.
Between three and four o'clock,
the sound of artillery from vessel
in the river, firing minute guns,
awoke afresh our solem SORROW
the corpse was removed-a band of
music with mournful melody melted
the soul into all the tenderness of
woe.
The procession was formed and
moved on in the following order:
Cavalry, Infantry, Guard, with
arms reversed), Music, Clergy, The
Generals horse with his saddle, hol-
sters and pistols.
Pail Bearer's-Cols. Simms, Ram
say, Payne, Gilpin, Marsteller, Little.
Mourners, Masonic Brethren, Citi-
zens.
When the procession had arrived
at the bottom of the elevated lawn,
on the bank of the Potomac, where
the family vault is placed, the cav
airy halted, the infantry marched
toward the Mount and formed their
lines-the clergy, the Masonic Bro
theirs, and the Citizens, descend to
the vault, and the funeral service of
the church was performed-The fir
ing was repeated from the vessel in
the river, and the sounds echoed
from the woods and hills around.
Three general discharges by the
infantry-the cavalry, and IL pieces
of artillery, which lined the banks
of the Potomac back of the Vault,
paid the last tribute to the entomed
Commander in Chief of the Armies
of the United States and to the de-
parted Hero.
The sun was now setting. Alas
the SON OF GLORY was set forever.
No-the name of WASHINGTON
the American President and Gen
eral-will triumph over DEATH The
unclouded brightness of his Glory
will illuminate the future ages!
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
BluftOn LegiOnndire
VIII Assist Patrol

Ralph Henry, chaplain of the
Bluffton post of the American Le-
gion, has been selected as one of the
20 Legionnaires in Allen county to
assist the state highway patrol in
emergency work in connection with
National Defense.
He is taking a special course in
weekly meetings at Lima under the
direction of officials of the state
highway patrol. In case of emer-
gency Henry will be subject to call
by the highway patrol for assistance
in the direction of traffic, breaking
up mobs and other responsibilities
incidental to emergency conditions.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19

liam is the only member of the fam
lily living, the mother having passed
away at Williams home in Chinook,
Montana in 1915.
William has been engaged as radio
operator in ocean going freighters
sailing out of San Francisco going
to most of the ports of the world.
For the past two years he has been
radio man for the Luckenbach line
plying the Gulf of Mexico and East
ern Atlantic ports.
At the request of his family he
is retiring from seafaring activity
and is returning to Long Beach
where he will operate a small orange
farm.
Although most of his classmates in
the old Bluffton school have scattered
to the far corners of the country,
Woodbridge found several of his
friends of a half century ago with
whom many "reminiscences were ex-
changed in his Friday afternoon
visit here.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
Narrative OF Funeral
Of George Washington

The following description of the
funeral of George Washington is
taken from the Ulster County Ga
zette, published at Kingston, N. Y,
at the time of his death. The ac-
count is sent to the Bluffton News
by Mrs. r. C. Frick of Cherry
street:
GEORGE Town, DEC. 20, 1899
On Wednesday last, the mortal
part of WASHINGTON the Great
the Father of his Country and the
Friend of man, was consigned to the
tomb, with solemn honors and fun
eral pomp.
A multitude of persons assembled
from many miles around, at Mt.
Vernon, the choice abode and last
residence of the illustrious chief.
On the ornament at the head of
the coffin, was inscribed "SURGE AID
JUDICIUM"-about the middle of the
coffin, GLORIA DEo"-and on the sill
yer plate,
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
More Than 25O Books Collected
Here In Victory Book Campaign

signed 100000 books in the victory
book campaign and already 100000
of them are on their way to camps,
posts, USO clubs, American Mer-
chant Marine and other military and
naval stations.
Actually there have been several
hundred thousand books more collect
ed than the million assigned. Dis
tribution comes only after the books
have been sorted as to subject, con-
dition and need. They are then
counted and the number reported
Immediately to campaign headquart-
ers in New York. BY return mail
directions are sent for the distribu-
ton.
The first shipment from Bluffton
is ready to go out soon, it was stat
ed by Miss Anderson.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19

day this would be 36 days. The adj
dition of four days to this period
makes the fast exactly 40 days in
duration and therefore accords with
the fast of Jesus as we'll as the fasts
of Moses and Elias.
The use of ashes in the ceremony
of the Protestant church has gener-
ally been discontinued since after the
Reformation. The entire Christian
world, however, starts the Lenten
celebration on this Ash Wednesday
even though the form of the celebra-
ton varies in the different religious
groups.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19

Dick Rockey-Safety and Compass,
$50 p. M.
Francis Kohli-Knife and Hatchet,
700 P. NJ.
Seventeen Scouts and eligibles were
present at the Monday night meeting.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
Oldest Fraternity

The oldest Greek letter fraternity
in this country is Phi Beta Kappa,
honorary collegiate society, founded
in 1776.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19
Birthday Anniversary OF First
American President to be
Observed Sunday
Throughout Career Always
Longed to Settle Down at
Mt. Vernon Estate

With the United States engaged
in all out military action in World
War Number Two, attention is fo-
cused on George Washington, whose
birthday anniversary we will cele-
brate Sunday, not only as the father
of our country but as a military
genius of first order.
Even from the period of his earl
lest boyhood George was known for
his insistence on precision. His fam
ilv encouraged him to take up sur
yeying, an activity that appealed
very much to the young man.
Boundaries, angles, plots, calculations
all were entered with formality and
exactness in Georges books.
LoNGED FOR SEA
At the age of Is he had consum-
ing ambition to enter a life at sea.
Many a time he was seen to cast
longing eyes at the ships which
sailed up and down the Rappahan-
mock. His mother did not sympa-
thize with this ambition and pre-
vailed on her brother to write George
and tell him of some of the hard
ships with that type of work.
His mothers tears, reinforced by
the cold hard judgment of his uncle,
put an end to Georges dream of
glory to be gained from a life at
sea.
Prevented from realizing this am
bition George went to work in earn
est in his chosen field of surveying.
After several years of this work
the young man began to feel that
the profession did not provide suffi-
cient outlet for his boundless ener-
gies and aspirations. Whenever an
idle interval found him at Mount
Vernon, he took up the study of the
military profession.
ENTERS MILITARY SERVICE
At this period of his life it became
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-02-19

A practical innovation displayed
recently was a holder for French
phones which leave a secretary's
hands free to take dictation.
, 1942-10-28
Who's telling Who where to get off,"
o. D. GOVERNMENT auNs OFFICE 1850
Beard Gets
Send OFF

Harold Beard, popular negro boy
of Department 20 at Frigidaire,
has left for the Army with fond
remembrances of the boys he
worked with. All the boys of
groups w 1856 took up a COL
lection for the purchase of a mill
tary set, cigarettes, and a combina-
ton lighter and case.
Beard was an oil changer in the
machine department and his sunny
disposition made him a favorite
with the boys. The greatest dis
tinction that a man can have is
the privilege of serving his
country, and Harold leaves with
the knowledge that his fellow
workers are behind him a 1000.
The inspectors of Department 20
also showed their sentiments to-
wards Beard and donated freely
toward the gifts of remembrance.
We need more workers and good
Union men like Harold Beard, a
boy who will be remembered.
nofarv,oinaf ;nu TS VTCT0pv =
, 1942-10-28
DeIco Guards
Vote UE-CIO

An outstanding Labor Board
election victory was won last
week by Delco Products (GM)
plant patrolmen. They voted for
UE Local ITO to the tune of 91%.
This victory unites the guards in
Dayton's two largest GIN plants,
in a Local Union of their own.
Frigidaire patrolmen won their
election last April, and have just
completed their contract negotia-
tons.
A Contract Committee, for the
Delco guards, will be elected soon,
for the purpose of drafting a pro-
posed agreement covering wages,
hours and other conditions of en-
ployment.
Once approved by the member
ship, negotiations will get under
way with management. Meanwhile
Delco patrolmen are becoming full
Pledged members in good stand
ing of Local no, and will soon
elect members to serve on the
Locals Executive Board.
, 1942-10-28
On Guard
BY F. b. Richey
Local 8O4 Member

There is a sentry standing there,
In the cold and wintry air.
His clothes are soaked, and
The rain drips from his hair.
He cannot leave his post,
For hot coffee and some toast.
His ears are trained, his eyes are
strained,
He is silent as a ghost.
The roaring of a motor,
He hears from over head,
Is loaded down with bombs
That leave you crippled or dead.
He sends a warning signal to the
men in the brush,
They get the guns ready, and do
it with a rush.
The lights flash on the death deal
ing plane,
It turns out to be a bomber that
crossed over Maine.
But don't you worry what will
happen in the end,
Just keep on buying bonds, and
leave it to the men.
America-We Stand United !
, 1942-10-28
CIO Urges
Defeat Of
Defeotists

Two appeals
for CLIO action in electing win
the-war candidates in the Nov
ember elections went out from
headquarters this week, one to
CLIO unions from Nathan Cowan,
legislative representative, and the
other a special message from Pres.
Murray to California workers.
Murray's message, sent to Cali
fornia CLIO members through Mer-
vyn Rathborne and Phillip Con-
nelly, CLIO Council leaders there,
appealed for hard work by every
member in the current campaign.
Cowan's letter called for similar
action, laying out a four-point
program to be followed by all
CIO affiliates.
1T is not enough to pass res0-
lutions" Murray wrote. ut is
necessary that every CLIO member
and every CLIO local union take
on the responsibility of seeing that
each worker is aware of the CAM
paign issues and is aware of the
campaign issues and is aware of
the CLIO selection.
"This means that every member
has the responsibility of partici-
pating in the distribution of litera-
ture, in the worker-to-worker and
house-to-house spread of infor-
nation and guidance, in every
precinct, every district and every
state. It is the responsibility of
every CIO member to see that he
and each of his fellow members
goes to the polls on election day."
CLIO unions must read "the
storm warnings" in the light vote
in the primaries and other signs
of apathy by the voters, Cowan
said in urging hard and continu-
GUS work to get out the vote.
If this trend, and the trend
toward returning reactionary and
anti-war candidates to Congress
continues, it means that "there is
a heavy and dangerous tide run
ming against organized labor,
against all the progressive forces
and against the war effort" he
wrote.
Cowan urged an intensive cam
paign in union meetings, in the
labor press, in mass meetings,
parades and every other available
means of communication with the
membership" to get the workers
registered and down to the polls
to vote.
Damn The Japs-Produce
Razor blades and straight razors
will be manufactured at 1919
of their rate of production In 1910.
, 1942-10-28

Determination Is VICTORY =!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-06
SCHROEDER is NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR
RENT CEILING DATE

Since The Citizen announced
yesterday that the rent-ceiling
date in Key West remains the
same a few local landlords seem
to think that Laurence A. Schroe-
der, who is in charge of the rent
control office here, is to blame for
that condition, whereas he has nc
more to do with it than an infant
in arms.
The man to blame is Leon Hem
derson, chief of the OPA, fol
keeping the date to October l,
1941, as the rent-level in Key
West. AS The Citizen explained
this city is one of 40 areas in the
country that is kept at that date
while rent-ceilings in all other
places is fixed at March ]. 1912.
Mr.. Henderson explained that
in Key West, as well as in the
other 48 places, work on defense
projects started earlier than gen
orally, resulting in rising rents q
year or longer Before the Jap
backstab at Pearl Harbor 'iH
Mr.. Schroeder is in a class with
all other government employees;
he does what he is told to do.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-06
MARINES RUN
JAPANESE BACK
NIPPONESE SUCCEED. HOW.
EVER. IN BRINGING UP
REINFORCEMENTS
UBy Associated PressD

DARWIN, Oct. 6.-The war Of
flee said today that the Japs have
succeeded in bringing up rein
forcementS in the Guadalcanal
sector of the Solomon Islands,
but added that the United States
Marines have beaten back every
attack that has been launched
against them.
The Japs, while landing rein
forcements, subjected their ships
to attack by American bombers,
during which Jap cruiser was
struck by a bomb.
The big American bombers did
not confine their attacks to the
Jap ships, but also raided the
Jap base at Rabaul on New Brit
ain and Buna on New Guinea.
In the Solomons eight separate
airraidS have been made on the
Jap base on Guadalcanal.
Meanwhile, the Japs are still
retreating down the north slopes
of the Owen Stanley Mountains
on New Guinea. The Australians
have gained the hump of the
mountain north of Port Moresby
base and are consolidating their
positions.