Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1921 — Page 3

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■ J _ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+ • ABOUT TOWN * •****♦♦♦«****♦♦* Mrs. Latchaw and daughter, Marcella, returned to Chicago last evening after a few days visit at the Dan Tyndall home. Miss Ruth Frisiuger went to Huntington yesterday for a visit with friends. Rev. C. J. Miner is visiting with friends at Mentone, Indiana. Miss Lucille Ramsey and Harold Swartz motored to Bluffton last evening where they attended the Bar-num-Bailey circus. I. A. Kalver, of Fort Wayne, former Decatur man, left today for Montreal. Canada, on a business trip for the Weil Brothers company of Fort Wayne, with which company he is now connected. William Baumgartner of Berne was a business visitor here this morning. Eugene Lindsey of Hartford township attended to business matters here this morning. S. B. Fordyce is home from Rome City where he has been enjoying the weather and the bine gills for several months. Sam Barger of Kirkland township came in Tuesday evening to hear election returns. He was strongly opposed to the amendments and said to his notion it was the most important election ever held and he could not understand the lack of interest. C. D. Lewton and D. W. Beery attended the Van Wert fair today. Bryce Thomas left yesterday for Lafayette, Ind., where he will enter the fall term of Purdue university. ‘ Ralph Tyndall and Robert Colter left I today for the same school.

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Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gilbert and William Highlen were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Zimmerman of Madison street. Mr. and Mrs. Neil McDowell and son Junior, of Bluffton, were over Sunday guests at the home of Mrs. McDowell’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mat Brandyberry of Patterson street. They returned home Monday. Richard Deininger, Elmo Ehinger and Arthur Hyland, will leave Monday for South Bend, where they will attend Notre Dame University this term. Thetus Hocker, Dick Heller, Victor Buftzell, Francis Costello and Harry Fisher will leave Saturday for Bloomington, Ind., where they will enter Indiana university. Mrs. Tom Vail and her mother, Mrs. Ward, visited in Bluffton yesterday and attended the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus. J. E. Collins of Richmond, Ind., Division Freight Agent for the Penn,sylvania railroad, was a business visitor here today. Allen Stalter and Tom Vail attended the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus at Bluffton last evening. H. L. Merry was a business visitor in Fort Wayne today. Sir. and Mrs. Tom Kuhne of the Murray Hotel, attended the Van Wert fair today. The Elks will hold their regular meeting at the hall this evening at 7:30 o'clock. David Hensley, Arthur Hyland and Charley Keller, returned yesterday from a motor trip to Rome City, where they spent Labor Day. Bob Meibers has returned from a week-end visit at Rome City. Roy Clifton, of the Conter Ice

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Crcum company, made a business trip to Ohio City today. John Joseph, Arthur Kleinhenz and Irvin Butler attended the Van Wert fair today. Mrs. Joe Smith and the Misses Marie Reffey and Esther Zerkcl were entertained at a chicken supper by Mrs. Ray Smith of southeast of town Tuesday evening. Ask Smithy who ate the custard pieT Today she is sick and not able to work. Mrs. J. H. Bremerkamp and daughters, Florence and Genevieve and Mrs. W. M. Harting and daughter, Muyme, have returned from a two weeks outing at Edgewater Park, Celina, O. ■ • BAND-CONCERT PROGRAM For Friday Evening, September 9, 1921, at the Stand on the Court House Lawn. Galop (Alexander) —Bastinado. Overture (Huff)-—Magneta. Waltz (Wood) —Idle Hour. Serenade (Jewel) —Passing Fancy. Popular numbers—• Fox trot (Snyder)—Frankie. Fox trot (Devoll)—(Main Street. Overture (Hays)—Extempore. Dance Caprice (Wellesley) — LaFleurette. Sacred songs: March (Losey)—Knights of Old. a BALL GAME SUNDAY. After being without the regular Sunday ball game for several weeks, the local fans will again be treated to the national sport next Sunday afternoon, when the local_club will clash with the fast Willshire club at Bellmont Park. The local team is all set for the occasion and predict a highly spirited contest and both teams are out to win. The locals will appear with their regular line-up and a good game is promised. The admission to Sunday’s game will be thirty-five cents. Come out to Bellmont park Sunday and join the crowd. GENEVA NEWS (Lavon Mattax, Correspondent) Miss Caroline Acker returned to her home here Tuesday afternoon after visiting several days at the home of her grandfather, Irvin Acker, of Decatur. Mrs. Ray Fowler of Fort Wayne spent Labor Day at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Lindsey. Mr. and Mrs. William Heller of Chicago were guests at the home of the latter’s arents, C. N. Brown and wife, over the week-end. Miss Helen Foreman returned to her home in Muncie Tuesday afternoon after a week’s visit at the home of her uncle, John Whiteman. Earl Conner of Decatur spent the week-end and Ixibor Day at his parental home. Miss Garnet Cooper returned to Geneva last Saturday to enter school after spending the summer in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Duer are the proud parents of a fine baby girl born last Monday. Mother and baby are doing fine. Miss Grace Burke left Saturday for Mason City, lowa, where she will teach this winter, after spending the summer visiting relatives in Geneva and vicinity. Miss Carrie Church has gone to Laporte, Ind., where she will be employed as a teacher this winter. The Geneva Boosters were defeated last Sunday afternoon by the Ridgeville team by a score of 2 to 3. Neither team succeeded in getting a man across the plate until the sixth inning. Only one error was made, Badders of he local -team making that. Ridgeville may well feel proud of their victory and the Boosters need not be ashamed of their defeat as both teams played fine ball all the time. The Fort Wayne Colored Giants will be here next Sunday. They carry a quartette with them and the Geneva band will also be on the grounds. Dr. and Mrs. L. L. Mattax spent Tuesday morning in Portland where the latter had dental work done. Henry and Ramon Hunt and Bert Haviland left for Indianapolis Monday and will attend Indiana Central college at that place this winter. Carlton Bunnell returned to his home in Hamlet, Ind.. Tuesday morning after spending several days at the home of Frank Odle. The Lull class of the M. E. Sunday school met Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Dave Teeple on Shackley street. After the business was attended to an hour was spent in .having q good social time. One of thei interostihg. features of thej afternoon was the peanut, hunt.’ Refreshments were served by Mrs. Teeple,and her assistant hostesses. Mrs. John Miller and Mrs. William Heeter. : D. J. MacWbirter and wife motored to Wolcottville last Sunday and took their granddaughter, Eleanor, home. When they returned they brought her twin, Donald, back with them.

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“A CITY SPARROW" Whether it be true or not that nobody loves u fat man, us ’’Slim' Hoover, a famous stage Sheriff suid, it Is certain that the fat num in Ethel Clayton’s new Paramount picture, “A City Sparrow," which will be shown at the Crystal theatre tonight, whose love romance proves sour, will agree that all that ‘‘Slinf’ has to say about love and kindred things. Waller Hiers, the popular comedian, is the fat man referred to. As Tim Ennis in the picture, he is desperately in love witli Milly West, an Apache dancer portrayed by beautiful Ethel Clayton. When Milly turns him down, he decides to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide, or plain gas. The stench docs not agree with his taste, however, and when he hears the clink of poker chips in un adjoining room, he abandons the idea of self destruction and takes a baud In the national game. • THE ROOP REUNION The ninth annual Roop family reunion held on Sunday, September the fourth, at Bellmont park, Decatur. There was a large attendance of almost two hundred relatives and friends. The morning hours were spent in greeting the old friends and meeting and making welcome the new. At noon an elaborate picnic lunch was spread, this being the main feature of the day. In the afternoon a short business session was held and officers elected for the coming year. Rev. Carl V. Roop, Findlay, Ohio was re-elected president; Mrs. Chas. Beck, Delphos, Ohio, reelected secretary and treasurer; Mrs. Lew Meyers, Decatur, vice president; Samuel Acker, Decatur, committeeman for the preparation of grounds; Mrs. Fioyd Hull. Rockford, Ohio, historian. It was decided to hold the next reunion at Bellmont park on the Sunday before Labor Day. It being the tenth reunion, it is the desire to make it a banner year. A big program is to be prepared. There is to be songs, instrumental music, speeches and a family history. Two deaths were reported at this meeting; that of Jacob C. Roop, of Decatur, on December 30, 1920, at the age of 77 years; and that of Will Roop, of Monroe, on I October 15, 1920, at the age of 72 years. A short address was given by the president, Carl V. Roop and recitations by Mary and Virgil Balanger which was greatly enjoyed by all' A collection was taken and the remainder of the day was spent in visiting. BACKACHE OF WOMEN The back is often called the mainspring of a woman’s life. What car. j she do, where can she go, so long as ; that deadly backache saps every particle of her strength and ambition? She cannot walk, site cannot stand, her housework is a burden, or tlie long hours behind the counter, in the oilice or factory are crushing. She is miserable. The cause is many times some derangement of her system, and backache is a common symptom. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is a reliable remedy lor backache, as for more than forty years it has been relieving women of America from the ailments which often cause it.

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