Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1912 — Page 2

D AIL YD E M O C R A T Published Every - Evening, Except Sunday by rut DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates ha. Ween, by carrierlo cents »•« Year, by carrierss.oo Far Month, by man2b cents Per Year, by maill2.oo Bjugle Copies 2 cents Advertising ratal? made known on application. Entered at the postotUce in Decatur, Intnana, as second-class mail. There are sixty-six negroes attending the Chicago convention as delegates from southern states. Surely then will be no scarcity of dark horses. ( _* * The finance committee for the ‘Old Home Week” is at work today and are meeting with splendid success. There is no doubt but that they will succeed in raising from $1,200 to sl,500. Up to noon today they had been turned down in but one place. No man cun nttord to be out of this celebration. it is not an ordinary one and Decatur has but few at best. You should all help, either financially or by work in making it a week that will be talked of about here and elsewhere for years to come. Let’s make it big and clean and wholesome. If Roosevelt has a chance to win in • the Chicago convention it is slight, i and he will do it only by stampeding the boys at the right time. According to the first vote on the temporary organization Roosevelt’s strength is about eighty short of the coveted number necessary to win. McGovern received 502 votes, but in this number were twenty-three votes from Wisconsin which will go to LaFollete and eighteen from Kansas, which will go to Cummins. As it takes 540 to nominate there seems to be little chance for the colonel. On the other hand the Root vote of 588 cannot he relied on for Taft, as there are at least sixteen votes from lowa that will go to Cummins. His backers are claiming his nomination now on the first ballot by two. That's too sligut to bet on, hut it gets down to this as we see it. Roosevelt cannot be nominated, except by stampede, while Tait has a chance, if he can hold his delegates, to slip through by a very narrow margin. The dark horse may j-R land. A MILITARY BURIAL. As beiits a good soldier, the late Theodore Kennedy was given a. military burial this afternoon by the G. A. R., which attended the funeral in a body. The services were held from the Presbyterian church at 1:30 o’clock, with the Rev. W. H. Gleiser officiating, and burial tok place in the Maplewood cemetery. The W. R. C., of which Mrs. Kennedy is a member, also attended in a body. Mr. Kennedy’s death occurred Monday morning. 0 CONCORD CHILDREN'S DAY. On account of the rain last Sunday the children’s day exercises of the Concord Lutheran church were postponed until next Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. o Mrs. Elias Sheets of Wren, Ohio, was here today on business. Mrs. E. 11. Kilbourne of Ft. Wayne is here to attend the commencement of the St. Joseph’s schools, her sister, Miss Frances Deininger, being a graduate.

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DOINGS IN SOCIETY i Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan and Daughter, Frances, Return from East. VASSAR EXERCISES Evangelical Ladies to Have All-day Meeting With Mrs. Fred Linn. WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesday. Mothers’ club —Mrs. Henry B. Heller. Needles and Nods Club —Mrs. Frank Carroll. Sunday School Class —Mrs. Moyer. Thursday. Evangelical Aid —Mrs. Fred Linn. Presbyterian Aid—Mrs W. H. Gleiser. Helping Hand —Ella Mutschler. Ruth Circle Mrs. Minnie Danieis' Home. Friday. i himb'o Club —Mrs, Ear' Coverdale. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan and daughter, Frances, arrived Tuesday afternoon from their eastern trip, which was taken following the commencement of Vassar college at Poughkeepsie. N. Y., June 12, Miss Frances Dugan being a graduate of the class of 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Dugan, who left here June first, visited first in Phila- ■ delphia with relatives and then went j to Poughkeepsie in time for the commencement week festivities which began Saturday, June Sth. The weather was ideal in all ways for the entire series of the events of the commencement calendar, many of which were given on the beautiful Vassar campus which comprises many acres. There were the field day exercises, the class day (when it is estimated that there were fully eight thousand people on th* campus), the tree ceremony, the '■lav role festival. receptions and alumni association meets and reunions | ;tn nil the ' <*ek to repletion. Members of the first graduating class of the college were present and classes of thirty-five and forty years ago, as well as the later ones held their reunions. Miss Ruth Beers of Fort Wayne, well known here, who was graduated two years ago from the college, was among the attendants at the reunion of her class. The commencement proper was held Wednesday. June 12th, and that day as well as the others of the en- • rn week, was crowned with ideal weather, a boon which is not-always granted the classes. The graduates numbered two hundred forty-three, and all wore trailing gowns of pure ■ white, forming an unusually prettv : procession as they wended their way ' through the green campus with its ; wealth of trees and flowers. The entire festivities were characterized by great beauty. Following graduation week, Mr. and Mrs. Dugan took their daughter on a trip that included a visit in the Lake George and Lake Champlain regions, steamer rides down the . Hudson river and St. Lawrence river to the Thousand Isles, with stops at Montreal and Toronto, and then a ride across the great lakes to Niagara Falls, and thence home, completing a trip of unusually great pleasure. Mrs. Will Hurst and children, Helen 1 and Harold, of Moline, 111., and her mother. Mrs. Anna McCullough, spent the day with Mrs. Kurt Fritzinger, at Monmouth. , Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. H. Kohn at Willshire, with that clergyman officiating, occurred the wedding ’ of Mr. James Strickler and Miss Edna Durr, both of Adams county. Rev. { Kohn also officiated at the wedding of Rupert Gase and Miss Mary Math- ’ ewson Sunday at high noon at the home of the bride’s parents near this

city in the presence of a large number i of invited guests. After the ceremony ■ and congratulations, the assembly was ' invited into the dining room, where all fared sumptuously. The couple received many valuable presents. May each couple be blessed with peace and prosperity through life is the wish of their many friends. The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid will hold its last meeting of the season with Mrs. W. H. Gleiser tomorrow afternoon, and it is desired that all be in attendance. The Alba Theta club girls enjoyed ■ their regular meeting Tuesday evening with Miss Mayme Harting. Other guests were Miss Lillian Hayes of Marion and Miss Vr.;a Myers. Miss Vit? Stoneburner will be the next hostess:. , The Needlecraft club has postponed its meeting again this week on account of several other functions, and on account of the absence of the hostess, Miss Mallonee, who is attending the Epworth League convention at Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Walda were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. Rademaker and family at six o’clock dinner last evening, leaving on the seven o’clock car for their future home in Ft Wayne. Mrs. Walda was Miss Emelie Hleeke of Un'on township, before her marriage which took place last Sunday. The Misses Helen and Dorothea Walters left this afternoon for Ft. Wayne to attend the Epworth League convention, and will join jheir mother who has been attending the missionary convention. Miss Dorothea Walters is on the program and will recite the names of the books of the Bible, in their regular order, both from the beginning to the end and vice versa, quite a feat for an eight-year-old miss. All members of the Evangelical Ladaies’ Aid society are asked to remember the all-day meeting to be held Thursday with Mrs. Fred Linn. There will be a picnic dinner and each lady is requested to bring thimble and needle. i Mrs. J. C. Sutton, who is spending ■ the summer at the White farm in I Preble township, was in the city today attending the meeting of the i Mothers’ club this afternoon at the 1 home of Mrs. H. B. Heller. Master I Harry Sutton was also a guest of boy ! friends here. o BANK STATEMENTS. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., June 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A call for the 1 condition of all national banks at ths I close of business on Friday, June 14, was issued today by the comptroller I of currency. 0 —— PARKER MAY BE CHAIRMAN. (United Press Service.) Baltimore. Md., June 19 —(Special to aDily Democrat)—lndications to- ■ day strongly favored the selection of fudge Alton B. Parker for temporary i chairman of the democratic national ■ convention. The selection will be made by the committee on arrange- ' ments tomorrow. Parker has the supj port of Charles Murphy, Tami many hall leader, and the entire New York delegation Secretarv Urey Woodson of the national committee today said that the committee would have only about forty contested delegates to decide. Q LOCATED IN EVANSTON. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Dorwin have returned from Chicago, where they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vaughn and son, Crede, late cl this city. Mr. Vaughn, who is a linotype operator, has an excellent position with the Evanston Index company ’ and his son, Crede, has a position in ' i the same crnce. The family resides I at' Evanston, a suburb, and are doing , ! extremely well Mr. and Mrs. Dorwin report a very good time.

JUNE NUPTIALS Happy Wedding of Bertha Katherine Knapp and Alfred R. Ashbaucher WILL TAKE PLACE I At Bride’s Parents’ Home This Evening — Well Known Young Couple. June has not seen a happier wedding that that of Miss Bertha Katherine Knapp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Knapp and Mr. Alfred R. Ashbaucher, which will be solemnized tbis evening at eight o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, at 415 North Third street. The home has been prettily decorated for the event, in pink and white, these colors being carried out with streamer decorations and all the pretty June flowers. The archway was made especially attractive, and in this place, under a wedding bell, will the ceremony 'take place. Miss Gertrude Hilkene, of InJ dianapolis, will play the wedding march, the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, and the Rev. L. C. Hessert of the German Reformed church will perform the ceremony, the ring ceremony to be used. The bridal party will be ■ a very pretty one. The bride who is .' of lovely personality, will wear a handsome gown of pure white embroidered voile, over white satin. A long veil, made to fit her hair, cap ’ shape, will be caught with white rose- ■ buds and smilax, and she will carry a bouquet of white rosebuds and smilax. • Miss Mabie Ashbaucher, the groom’s • sister, who will attend her, will wear a lovely creation c. pink chinon over satin and the flowers she will carry ! will be pink carnations with smilax. ' Miss Hilkene will wear rose colored . I chiffon over satin. . i The groom wilt be attended by the ■ bride’s brother, Charles Knapp, of Chicago. About fifty guests will witness ! the wedding and after the nuptial : ceremony, will be given a buffet lunch in the dinningroom. where the decora- ■ tions of the table will carry out the 1 color scheme, in the flowers and smi- ‘ lapc. The newly married couple will ’ go to Orville, Ohio, for a visit with relatives and will be at home after June 27, in their home on Indiana street, which they have already furI nished. i Miss Knapp is one of the truly womanly young ladies of the city, being ■ versed in the household arts as well ■ as having what is considered the more > aesthic accomplishments. She is a , prominent member of the German Re- ' formed church, and of its various oiganizations, as is the groom, and of a number of clubs. Iler popularity was quite evidenced by the many showers and pre-nnptial parties given in her 1 honor. The groom is a son of the late Sheriff Peter Ashbaucher of this city, his ' mother, who is now Mrs. Martin Stair I residing in Bluffton. He is an em- ■ ployee of the Schafer Company, and ■ is a young man of quality. Among ■ the out of town guests pt the wedding - many of whom have already arrived, are: Miss Gertrude Hilkene. of Indianapolis: Mrs. Willis Van Camp, Jackson, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Martin ‘ Stair, Miss Mabel Ashbaucher, and ■ Mr. and Mrs. Herb Borroughs, Bluffton; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Studebaker, , Van Wert, O.; Mr. and Mrs. HenrJ Ashbaucher and son, Claude, Hammond; Mr. and Mrs. Ward Sunier and ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Dan Stair. Ft. Wayne. o I RETURNS FROM MC-iNESOTA. - — ’ Frank Gessinger, son of Mr. ami 1 Mrs. David Gessinger, has returned from Albert Lea, Minnesota, where he 1 has been employed the past year. He • has been engaged in the butcher busi- : ness for some time, having Worked ■ at the packing houses both in this city and Marion, before going to. Albert Lea a year ago, where he was employed in the Albert Lea packing I house. He will remain here until fall, at least. — o FOUND AN ALLIGATOR, While Lowell, little son of Dr. W. E. Smith or Third street was playing in the yard he found basking in the sun under the sweetpea hedge, a strange “cramly” animal about a foot long that turned out to be the pet alligator belonging to Fanny and Dick Heller, which had escaped from its watery pool in the pan Sunday and had run away. Search, high and low, had failed to find the little fellow until accidentally found this afternoon. o_ DEMONSTRATION. B sure to attend the de.aonstration at the gas office Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, afternoons and evenings. 145t5

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