The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-03-16
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Remember that one from julius
Caesar-ssbeware the Ides of March"
well Shakespeare must have been
thinking about 1914 income taxes :.
s. we don't know our English classics
too well, but as nearly as we can re-
call the Bard of Avon wasn't plagued
with income taxes and by this
time we presume you've mailed your
tax blank to Toledo and some
of the boys said they were about
ready to be taken to Toledo by the
time they had that tax blank made
out and now they've got their
fingers crossed hoping that it's
correct-but you never can tell-if
the treasury experts can't agree
among themselves how can we tell if
we got the right answer we
suggest that the answers somehow
go along with the blanks like they
used to have the answers in the back
of the old arithmetic-that always
helped lot and these tax pay
ments will add an extra note of
soberness to the Lenten season :.
hope no one asks us for a loan until
we get paid Saturday night any
way We'll save some money on gas
since A coupons are going to be
cut next week !. IS. but there's post
age rates going up and those
C. o. d. charges are really some-
thing j. and farmers all set to
start spring plowing as soon as the
weather clears and fields dry off
and so go the Ides of March.
And speaking of income tax the
story is going the rounds that next
years tax forms will be very simple
indeed. They will have only three
lines. On the first line the taxpayer
will be asked "How much did you
earn last year," Line two will say
"How much have you left?" and line
three will simply read "Send it in.''
Anyway that's what one village wag
had it the first of the week.
For Easter, we would like to have
some colored eggs like those big
white ones Charlie Keifer exhibited
| in the News window the first of the
week from his triple-A White Leg
horn flock. The largest measured
Sla inches by 6& inches around.
An arm band shipped from the
uniform of dead Jap by Richard
Balmer with the navy in the Pacific
area was received the first of tht
week by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
James Balmer of South Main street
The band bore insignia in Japanes,
characters, presumably designating
the outfit to which the dead sodie
belonged. Also Balmer enclosed
sheet taken from the bank bool
found on the Jap. The paper bor
Japanese characters, probably re
cords of his money transactions
Balmer now ranks as petty of
ficer, storekeeper 3rd class.
| And here's still another from tn
south Pacific. Remember last weel
we mentioned an incident concernin,
two nephews of Mrs. Wayne Harris
how one nephew, Pvt. Garnett Dear
had found a discarded airplane pro
peller which had been used as
temporary grave marker for hi
cousin Pfc. Lloyd Wendorf who wa
killed in action. Well, later lette
from Pvt. Dean states that h
succeeded in locating Wendorf'
grave which now has a permanen
marker. Dean and Wendorf bot
lived near Coldwater, Mich, an,
were we'll known to Mrs. Harris.
| Congratulations to Mrs. ]. w
Basinger of Columbus Grove VIII
was ninety-two last Friday. She i
the mother of DIR. Evan Basinger
Bluffton dentist, still enjoys goo'
health and reads the Bluffton News.
During the past week occurre,
the deaths of two aged women, vel
known here. Mrs. Elizabeth Par
rish, Bluffton's oldest resident woul'
have reached her ninety-sixth birth
day anniversary had she lived unit
April 10.
| Mrs. Mary Zeiders, 90, we'll known
in the Beaverdam-R -Rockport distric
died at the home of her daughter
Mrs. p. E. Kilgore in Columbus
Until few years ago, she read th'
Bluffton News every week withou
the aid of glasses.
Bern, Switzerland and Berne
Indiana, figured in the marriag,
license bureau at the Allen count,
probate court, Saturday when jacob
Haas of Pandora and Mrs. Carolin,
Welty of West Elm street, Bluffton
applied for a permit to wed. Haa!
was born in Bern, Switzerland ano
his bride-elect was a native Of tn,
Berne in Indiana.