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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-02
clubs, lodges
and Societies


AMIGO Club
The AMIGO club meeting has been
postponed until Thursday night,
October 9 at 7:30 o'clock.
Farm Bureau Council
Farm Bureau Advisory council No
| will meet at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. AIthaus, next Tuesday
night at o'clock.
Engagement Announced
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lewis of
North Lawn avenue announce the
engagement of their daughter Bettye
Jeanne to Robert Fl. Vroman, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Vroman of
Defiance.
Travel Class
The Travel class met at the home
of Miss Zanna Staater, Wednesday
afternoon. The program: Historical
Churches, Miss M'Della Moon;
Americas Most Historic Avenue,
Mrs. Ellen Baumgartner.
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Poinsettia Club
The Poinsettia club will meet with
Miss Sylvia Biederman, this Wednes-
day night. The program: Detroit,
Mrs. Ruby Murray; Greenfield Vii
lage, Mrs. Hazel Blome.
Legion and Auxiliary
Bluffton Legion post and the
Women's Auxiliary will hold joint
ceremonies for installation of newly
elected officers at their hall Monday
night at 8 o'clock. Preceding the
installation a pot luck supper will
be held at 7 o'clock.
Installation of Legion officers will
be in charge of the district COM
mander and Mrs, Russell Dull,
district president will install officers
of the auxiliary. All veterans and
wives are invited.
RichIand Community Circle
Richland Community circle will
meet Thursday afternoon, October Q
at the home of Mrs. Seva Follas.
The program:
Roll call, Courageous Lady, The
New Movies, Poem-Indian Summer,
Everything in its Canister, Poem
Dream Kitchen; Slick Tricks, Con-
test.
Jitsu Tau Club
The Jitsu Tau club will meet with
Mrs. Herman stager next Tuesday
night at o'clock. -
Diller ambulance removal-Nelson
Basinger to Christ hospital, Cincin-
| natl.
John Marquart sons John and
Ivan and daughters Shirley and
Patty spent Sunday afternoon with
Earl and Clyde Rupright of Jenera
Other visitors were Mr.. and Mrs
Melvin Long and daughters Dorothy
Mrs. Ruth Pulschon, Mr.. and Mrs
c. Fl. Routson and son Harry Paul
and Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Rupright OF
Findlay.
Mrs. John Marquart and sor
Marion spent the week end with her
sister, Mrs. VIM. Chidester and fam
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-02

The Travel class met at the home
of Miss Zanna Staater, Wednesday
afternoon. The program: Historical
Churches, Miss M'Della Moon;
Americas Most Historic Avenue,
Mrs. Ellen Baumgartner.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-02
THE BLUFFT0N NEWS
B. F. BIERY, Business Mgr.
c. 4. BTERY, Editor

Published weekly at Blutfton, Ohio,
by thesBluffton News Publishing and
Printing Co.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-02

Farm Bureau Council
Farm Bureau Advisory council No.
| will meet at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. AIthaus, next Tuesday
night at 8 o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-02
Poinsettia Club

Poinsettia Club
The Poinsettia club will meet with
Miss Sylvia Biederman, this Wednes.
day night. The program: Detroit
Mrs. Ruby Murray; Greenfield Vii.
lage, Mrs. Hazel Blome.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-02

The AMIGO club meeting has been
postponed until Thursday night,
October 9 at 7:30 o'clock.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-02

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Jitsu Tau Club
The Jitsu Tau club will meet with
Mrs. Herman Stager next Tuesday
night at o'clock.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

Communist, which is not so. In
those days they called people who
were against the system "nihilists," I"
and they killed them. Essie, who
once had said she thought it unfair
for the rich to take from the poor,
had already been accused Of being
a nihilist. At the time, she was
innocent even Of the meaning OF
the word.
IT began to wonder" she said
later, what If some Of those who
were in prison were, like me, nihil-
lists who did not even know what
a nihilist was"
After those first revolutionary
out5ursts in 1904, the quick ven
geance Of the aristocrats struck
close to this former protegee Of
theirs. A man with whom she was
in love was arrested for revolution
ary activity. Essie stood outside the
military compound when he was
executed, and as the shots rang out,
she cienched her hands and began
to sing a newly Learned revolution
ary song at the top Of. her voice.
A friend cautioned she would be
shot herself.
II don't care whether I live or
die" said Essie. Let them kill me-"
She remembered this man the
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Miss Lehman Long, -Out-of-Print Works
Return to Grace EnqIish Letters

as a novelist who is as careful a
craftsman and as distinguished a
stylist as Katherine Ann Porter is
master Of the short story. 1.-THE
Gipsy'S Baby and Other Stories
now establishes also Miss Lehmann's s
mastery of shorter fiction. Writ
ing Of different themes and from a
different viewpoint, she dislays that
rare brilliancy of style for which
Miss Porter's stories have heretofore
been pointed to as eminent in
contemporary literature.
Raynal and Hitchcock, who in
1945 published Miss Lehmann's s most
recent novel, "The Ballad and the
Source" have, in introducing her
short stories to the American pub
lie, at the same time issued new
editions, in corresponding formats,
of two Of her more popular novels.
Both have long been out of print,
and the publishers have, unques-
tionably, performed a service to
English letters in making them
again available.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

barks on an excursion into the un-
known in this tale of a 1897 dicta-
torship. Rid Of its metaphysical
overtones, the story is briefly this:
In the surface world, dictator
named Alpha reigns supreme by the
happy device Of letting people live
Just as they want to live. The
underground world is ruled by The
Mole. who doesn't care for the re-
suits of the fourth or psychological
revolution. In the underground
world, secret agents plot the de-
struction of Alpha, believing that
man is not supposed to lead a do
nothing life. Both the surface and
underground worlds use the 1897
refinements of torture to fight each
other. a..- ..l..
I The Mole hits upon the happy
plan Of getting to, Alpha by remod-
cling one Of the underworld agents
to become Alpha's double or "dop-
pelganger." Ultimately, the remod-
eled man kills Alpha and finds him
self in the top spot of the surface
world. When a man from the
elevated" world comes upon the
scene, the Mole is removed and the
new Alpha dedicates himself to
leading the world into a new era of
regeneration.
Into his tale, Mr.. Heard has
woven ,pageantry, hint of future
inventions and numerous abstruse
discussions that are as exhausting
Evening star., 1947-03-02

rest of her life. Later, when the
police came after her, she hid in the
forest for a few days. Finally, she
made her way to st. Petersburg
where, feeling a desperate need to
keep busy, she took job as a gov
erness.
Still the wave of suppression rolled
on its savage course. Word came
that one of her brothers had been
executed. Then another brother,
also condemned to death, escaped
from prison and made his way to
America. Sick of the life of terror
Evening star., 1947-03-02

and on the verge Of nervous collapse,
Essie followed him. '
She lived here 16 years-long
enough to become. among other
things, an American citizen, .
bachelor of science, a bachelor Of
pedagogy, a master Of science, a
doctor Of philosophy. one Of our
foremost biologists and a brilliant
all-around scientist on terms of
familiarity with most Of our other
prominent scientists.
She took her first two degrees Ia
Valparaiso University in Indiana,
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Reviewed by
GEORGE REVERIpGE.


One of this postwar era's toughest
jobs is being met by thousands Of
disabled veterans. Several hundred
of them, men who have already
found useful place in civilian life,
have attended classes at American
University here to learn to be serv-
ice officers for veterans organiza-
tions. They have gone to Veterans
Administration of1ices throughout
the country to help other disabled
veterans with their problems.
Last year Mr.. Wolfe, then an
American University professor, had
SO of the students write sketches
of their early lives, their combat
experiences, their problems and
their views Of America today. This
book is the result.
Most graphic of the more than
100 sketches are memories Of COM
bat-of the most impressive, the
most bitter, the most horrifying
moments. To recall them must
have caused great pain to men who
left a leg at Salerno or an arm on
an obscure Pacific island. LAS
write this I have the same feeling
I did then" writes one.
The reader sees pictures of an
hour spent in foxhole with Ernie
Pyle and first-hand observations
Of injustice-both in and out of
service. One tells Of a night spent
in a hospital at Litchfield, Eng
land; another Of fruitless visits to
Government agencies in search OF
a job.
The sketches make no pretense to
be good writing. Few of them are.
But they present an extraordinary
picture Of honest and straightfor-
ward thought Of group of men
who fought for their country. The
veterans come from 30 States and
the District, and range in age from
10 to As. Only three are college
graduates and four were commits
stoned officers.
The volume inclueds a short in
PRODUCTION by John Dos Passos and
illustrations by Leonard Pearl and
Leonard SanSorle.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

1OIEL VESUVlUS
BY Johan Fabricius. Translated
from the Dutch by M. S. Ste
phens. fRhinehart & Co., Inc. ):
S2.5O) ~ ". vi istf
Reviewed by
ELEANOR RYCE.
What seems most remarkable
about this light hearted novel is the
fact that its Netherlands author, q
man from the North, should give us
24o pages Of delightful whimsy about
a few little people on the sunny isle
of Capri-and do it 50 warmly and
so engagingly.
The time is just before Italy en-
tered World War I, and Mr.. Fabri-
cius has drawn from his prewar ex-
periences on the peninsula to pro-
duce fervent understanding, gently
written short novel about a hand
full Of inhabitants of a second-r rate
tourist hotel on the Mediterranean.
The novel covers one week of &C.
tivity at the hotel, late in the sum-
mer of 1899. On the continent, the
blueprints of war are being drawn.
Fascist Italy and Nazj Germany are
allies. Germany, after annexing
Austria and Czechoslovakia, is about
to take over Poland unhindered by
Russia. with whom she has signed a
nonaggression pact. Italy may go
to war.
Against this background, Mr.. Fab
ricius presents his little people en-
joying their "reminiscences, laughter,
wine. love and southern sunshine
for the little time of peace left them.
AL about them, in the city, across
the Bay Of Naples, are preparations
for war, already disturbing their
pleasant way Of life.
LA guerra" Is foremost In the
minds of his characters. but it is In
Mr.. Fabricius' presentation of their
simple attempts to 60 on living as
they have been-to delay the real
ization Of wars actuality-that the
charm of his work lies. For
Dutchman, Mr.. Fabricius does
good job Of giving us Capri.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

SAos ~A44c G@&A4Sg e' ~.>s'
his corpulent detective, DR.. Gideon
Fell, has a double problem: Was it
murder? Is Celia crazy?
Almost every one Is convinced that
Celia Deyereux has been pitched
into insanity by the death of her be-
loved sister, Margot. She insists
Margot committed suicide. The doc
tor contends Margot died of natural
causes. DR.. Fell takes it from there
and calls 1t murder.
Full of perversity and paradoxes,
DR.. Fell catches the prime suspect,
Margot's husband, in a damning
lie and, on the basis Of that, an
nounces he is innocent. Collins are
flung about q sealed vault in an
ominous way, but DR.. Fell says that's
easy to explain. He just never gets
around to explaining until the end.
With his usual omniscience DR..
Fell has no trouble pointing out the
murderer while the reader is still
busily looking in all the wrong di-
rections. Mr.. Carr, however, always
plays fair. In the denouement,
therefore, he demonstrates that
every clue used by DR.. Fell was laid
before the reader-if the reader had
just been looking in the right direc-
ton.
101 YEARS ENTERTAINMENT
Edited by Ellery Queen. (The
Modern Library; 1885,
FIREsIDE MYSTERY BOOK
Edited by Frank Owen. (Ldn-
tern Press, I7lc.;; $2.50.)
An authority as well as an author
In the mystery field, Mr.. Queen has
packed a century Of detective stories
into his 1,oo0-page collection. You'll
find all your favorite sleuths here,
from Poe's G. Auguste Dupin to
Hammett,s Sam Spade. Don't miss
Mr.. Queens analytical introduction.
Mrs. Owens book is more con-
temporary. The anthologist has
pored over the mystery magazines
and comes up with a score Of above
average stories by experts like VIII
liam Irish and Sax Rohmer. Unlike
Mr.. Queen, anthologist Owen is not
particularly interested in discover
les" He takes proven authors but
gets variety by differences in style
and setting
THE MIDDLE OF MIDNIGHT by
william Gilmore Beymer; whit
tlesey House, $3.50.
Ex-Sergt. Roderick Braun returns
to Germany to break UP sinister
underground activities in ancient
Dortheim.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

what the future
holds. To Mr..
Carr, the pres
ent is mysterious
e n ou 6 h - al
though he can't
resist pushing
the reader to the
edge Of accept
ing a supernat-
ural explanation
for strange 60
ngs-on.
Mr.. H e a r d ,
whose appeal is
to the most esot-
eric lovers of the
mvcteri011S en.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

THE GIPSY'S BABY AND
OTHER STORIES
DUSTY ANSWER
INVITATION TO THE WALTZ
BY Raymond Lehman. (Reynal
& Hitchcock; $3.50 each.)
Reviewed by
MILTON M. PLUMB, Jr.
and Publications Oficer, the
Library OF Congress.
An instantaneous success, Rosa
mond Lehmann's first book, DUSTY
Answer" had enjoyed five American
printings by November of it's year
of publication-1927. In 1882 it was
in German translation
at Leipsig under the title Of Mad
chen auf der Suche," and in 1941 it
was available to the Spanish world
as la Casa de al Lado," published
at Buenos Aires.
Four subsequent novels won Miss
Lehman a devoted following. A
writer Of subtle insights, she is rec
ognized by many discerning readers
Evening star., 1947-03-02

a S Z II e y a T e
C h all e n g | ng.
Here is scientific
t a n t a sy at its
most fantastic.
AS m Us terry
fans have come
to e KIP t, Mr..
Carr writes an
other above
average "w h o.
dunit" in 1.-THE
S / e e p 1 n 6
Sphinx" but it's
n OF on q par
with his recent
HE Who Whisp-
avs - rU~tr &S~an
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Mysteries
By Miriom ottenberq

BY Miriam Gutenberg
DOPPELGANGERS
BY H. F. Heard. (The Vanguard
Press, Inc; $2.75J
THE SLEEPING SPHINX
BY John Dickson Carr (Harper
& Bros; $780,
Here are two masters in the mys-
terry field, each with a wide following
who couldn't be more different. To
Mr.. Heard, the greatest mystery is
Evening star., 1947-03-02

with any person or persons that will
contract for the building q wharf.
Old newspapers are always helpful
in supplying historic dates, and sc
the writer has cleaned from the
early Georgetown press, in the "Mes.
senger Marine List" Of October rs
1917. the following as Entered
Henry Dennison, Capt. Throp, New
York; Gold Hunter, Farrow, st. An
drews; sloop Pike, Kennon, Balti-
more. Cleared - schooner Fail
American, Speare, Nanyemoy;
Ranger, Freeman, o. P. Comfort;
Milly David, Nottingham; President
Adams, Alexandra and Team boat
Union Shreves, do" Two days later
the list includes schooner Boulitta,
Capt. Sylvester, "54 days from Ma
deria; wine to Francis Adams, jun'
(and here the name Adams is di-
vided on the first "A"-"A-dams, ~
which no printer on The Star would
do today) The schooner Henrietta
is also given, Capt. Nevet, "64 hours
from Baltimore; dry goods, gro
ceries, etc., to merchants OF the
District. At o'clock this morning,
passed barque Mary, and brig Com
merce, below Cedar Point Narrows,
bound up."
Some Successful Merchants
Got Their Start in Georgetown
OF course, there were many mer-
chants and shippers in George
town, too many, indeed, to enumer-
ate in short story.
OF all, however, George Peabody
became the greatest financier, and
his philanthropic deeds gained him
everlasting renown. He was born in
Danbury, Mass, in 1895, and came to
Georgetown when still in his teens
and entered his uncle's dry goods
store and later formed a partner
ship with Elisha Riggs, During the
War Of 1812-18l5, he served as a
volunteer at Fort Warburton, later
Fort Washington. -s,..-
But. after all, few Georgetown
merchants were more successful
than Robert Peter. He was a Scots
man and the pioneer businessman,
Of that town. At first his business
place was known as Robert Peters
Rock Greek Store, and it soon be-
came the principal establishment Of
its kind in that part Of Maryland.
He had at least six sons, one OF
whom, Thomas Peter, married Mar
tina Parke Gusts, granddaughter of
Martha Washington.
Though q canny Scotsman, yet
Robert Peter consistently showed
his patriotism during the period Of
the American Revolution, and upon
one occasion in August, 1774, readily
agreed to abide by the decision of
the Committee Of Correspondence,
and promised to prevent a delivery
Of tea If it had not already been
made. He intimated a desire that
In the latter event it should be
stored bysany gentlemen appointed
by the committee, who thereupon
resolved that If the tea had been
landed it should be delivered to
Messrs. Thomas Johns, William Dea-
kins and Bernard O'Neale. Mr..
Peter assented and, according to the
chronicle, "pawned his honor for the
faithful performance Of his engage
ment." He was then dismissed with
the thanks Of the committee for his
candid and disinterested behavior.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

THE MELTING POT BOILS
OVER, by Henry Francis Mis-
selwitz christopher Publishing
House,. A report on America at
war. The author is a war cor
respondent, commentator and lee
turer.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
By John CIogett Proctor

Of excitement on account of the
French leave taken from the city by
a number Of slaves from both sides
of Rock Creek.
At Georgetown the steamer Sa-
lem was chartered, manned by
picked men, armed and equipped
according to law, and was soon in
hot pursuit of the missing vessel.
After a day and night it came upon
the Pearl in Cornfield Harbor, near
the mouth Of the river. The cap
ture was made without resistance,
and after fastening down the
matches and lashing the schooner
to the steamer, they headed for
Georgetown, where they arrived in
few days. The captain, Edward
Sayres, and Daniel Drayton, who
had quite probably engineered the
exodus of the slaves, were brought
to Washington and committed to
Jail. They were tried at the June
term, convicted and sentenced,
Drayton to pay 73 times $3.50 and
Capt. Sayres 70 times 500. The
defendants were represented by
Horace Mann, who succeeded John
Quincy Adams as Representative
from Massachusetts,, following that
former Presidents tragic death in
the Capitol, and by James M. Car
Isle, a celebrated lawyer Of that
period.
First Potomac Bridge
Erected in 1795
The commerce Of Georgetown was
Of gradual growth, and the town
increased in importance and pop
ulation as the vessels tying up to
its wharves found ready market
for their cargoes.
Things have developed with mar
velous rapidity. in this country In
the last 200 years and especially
since the American Revolution.
There was no bridge across the Po-
tomac until 17s5, when the George
town Bridge Co. succeeded in Sc
curing Timothy Palmer. ian artist
eminently distinguished" to erect
a bridge approximately on the site
Of the present Chain Bridge. Prior
to this, ferries provided the only
means of crossing the river in this
vicinity or farther southwark toward
the bay.
One of the oldest ferries on the
Potomac Of which there is record
was operated as early as 1898 from
Francis Awbrey's place, about half
a mile below what is still known as
Analostan Island, though Congress
about decade ago officially changed
its name to Theodore Roosevelt Is
land.
The first wharf erected in George
town, or anywhere in the District
Of Columbia, so far as known, was
provided for by the town corpora
ton in 1852, which met on August
3, when Messrs. Claggett, Magruder,
Lynn and Robert Peter were pres
ent, and when they resolved that
the money on hand or what part
thereof is necessary to build a wharf
be applied for that purpose, and
do order that their Clerk advertize
in the Maryland Gazette that they
will meet at the house Of Joseph
Belt, in said Town, on the first
Tuesday in October next, to treat
Evening star., 1947-03-02


ize the great shipping
industry once carried on from the
wharves Of this early Maryland
town, now a part Of the City Of
Washington. For here in Colonial
days, and for many years subse-
quently, was one OF the finest har-
bors around this part Of the coun-
try, and once one Of the chief
shipping ports in the New World
The magnificence Of the Potomac
and the great fishing industry car
ried on along this river, the fur
trade. and later the shipping OF
farm products, especially tobacco
brought to the wharyes of this old
town craft from all over the world
They came laden with foreign
cargoes, and left with articles for
which there was a demand in for
eign countries. Today but few for
eign flags may be seen on our water
front, whereas, at the time of the
laying out of the District, and
earlier, a dozen foreign flags at
least was not a rarity hereabout.
OF course we had quarantine
regulations then, but there was not
the same rigidity of enforcement
that is now exercised. Richard p.
Jackson, one of the foremost chron-
iclers Of Georgetown, tells Of an
occasion when the whole town was
infested with ants from the West
Indies. They were not only de-
structive at the time but their
descendants may be still carrying
on, although the chronicler tells us
none survived. To use his own
words: .
Reward of 81 a Quart
Offered for Dead Ants
John Laird 81 Son, tobacco mer-
chants Of our town, who shipped
large quantities of tobacco every
year to Europe in brigs or barks,
had ordered to Georgetown some
vessels In ballast, to be loaded with
tobacco. The vessels came and
threw out their ballast on the
wharves at the foot Of Frederick
street. This ballast contained a
large number Of ants, taken on
board in the West Indies, and be-
ing cast into town in the summer
season, they multiplied by thou
sands and millions, and entered
into every store and dwelling, as
they multiplied and marched on
ward due north. Never having gone
east of Potomac street, they in
tested the walls of buildings and
concealed themselves in the cracks
and openings. The chronicler has
many times struck with a stone a
brick or stone wall, when thousands
would come to the surface and run
in every direction. Their bite or
sting was painful, and such nui-
sance had they become to the prop
erty of the citizens (depreciating it
In value) that our corporation Of
fered a reward for their destruction
by paying 81 per quart for all dead
ants brought to the Office. After
paying out several hundred dollars,
the cold winter Of 1840-1 set in,
which completely destroyed them
Mr. jackson also makes reference
to an event which occurred in April,
i848, when the town was a turmoil
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Disabled Veterans
Write of Their
Own Experiences
Reviewed by
MILTON M. PLUMB, Jr,

THE PURPLE TESTAMENT, Life
Stories by Disabled Veterans.
Edited by Don Wolfe. (Stackpole
Sons; $780, ..-,... ...
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Georgetown Once a Port

WYE WHO today view
AA/ Georgetown's wat ter
wv front can scarcely real