Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1922 — Page 2

Bigger Output Now Necessary (Continued from page one) step along from this on, it is confident)y believed which also mctins increased business at the Deqatur Castings Company which is going along nicely, so j that the general outlook for Decatur is ■ much brighter than in most places. I Orders are also Increasing at Fort j Wayne At is said and the trend then 1 is upward. Officials and foremen were ' more enthused Saturday than for ninny months and al expressed the opinion that times the next year will show a decided improvement.

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WILL PUMP WELL (Continued from page one) foot deop and of :i quality which oil men say is sure to produce. The Bluffton Bunner euye: ‘‘Reprosentutlvee of the Blue Crook Oil company, capitalized at $25,000, 1 and composed of farmers and reprel sontativea of n foreign company are today in a mad scramble leasing land . in Laiscaster township, Wells county, land Washington and Kirkland town'ships, Adams county, for purpose of drilling for oil. The result of the test jwell on the Joe Andrews farm near Monroe, is responsible for the scramble for leases. The well is the first jone completed in the new territory

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1922

|aud the sand is 130 feet deeper than lin the Geneva field. According to statements of a representative of the company today, the whole of Lancaster township will be leased, and the two townships in Adams county Will be thoroughly tested out for oil. The I rogrosßlvo Class of the Presbyterian Sunday school will meet on i Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. VV. E. Smith on Third street. • All members are requested to be present as an election of officers will ' be held. _____—> It costs $lO a month to have a telephone in a Japanese dwelling.

♦ DOINGS IN SOCIETY ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ SLUB CALENDAR Monday. Research Club—2:3o—Miss Nellie Blackburn. Woman's Club—Library. Pytbiun Needle Club—K. of I*. Home, after lodge. Phi Delt Meeting—Club Rooms at 8 o'clock. TUESDAY Eastern Star initiation. Mary and Martha Sunday school class —Mrs. J. S. Peterson. Live Wire Clues —Mrs. Eugene Runyon. C. L. of C. degree team —Hall Wednesday. Wednesday—Auction Bridge Club — Mrs. Herman Ehingen Shakespeare Club —Mrs. Helen Blossom. Historical Club—Mrs. Edgar Getb ber. THURSDAY Presbyterian Ladies Aid —Mrs. Wilson Lee. Ladies Auxiliary of American Legion at the hall at 7:30.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mumma celebrated thefr forty-eighth wedding anniversary yesterday. They were married on St. Past rick’s day, March 17. 1874. Mr. Mumma is now seventy years old and his good wife is sixtyseven. Those present to help them t njoy the big dinner at noon were Mr. and Mrs. Lei Wilhelm and daughter, Helen, and son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Hartman Deel, of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garard, and John D. Aber, of this city. One daughter, Mrs. Amos Lewton, of Root township, and a son, Charles, of Warren, Ohio, could not be present at this time. ♦ The Eastern Star will have initiation Thursday evening after which a social hour and refreshments will be enjoyed. All members are requested to attend. ♦ Th Martha and Mary Sunday school class will meet Tuesday evening with Mrs. John Peterson of West Jefferson street. Every member is urged to attend. ♦ The Live Wire class of the Evangelical church will meet Tuesday evening with Mrs. Eugene Runyon. Every member is urged to attend. ♦ The C. L. of C. degree team will meet at the hall Tuesday evening after church for practice. It is important that every member be present at this time. ♦ The Presbyterian Ladies Aid will neet Thursday afternoon at 2:30 with Mrs. Wilson Lee. Everyone is urged to attend. ♦ The Shakespeare Club will meet We.dnesday aftaernoon at two o’clock with Mrs. Helen Blossom. Mrs. Fred Patterson will have the paper entitledd, "The Japanese in California and Texas. ♦ The Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion will meet at the hall Thursday evening at 7:30. ♦ The Misses June Ossenberg and Geraldine and Helen Everett entertained at dinher yesterday for Mr. and Mrs. John Everett and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Peterson. ♦ The Helping Hand Society of the Reformed churciih will meet Wednesday afternoon in the Sunday school room. Mrs. Fred Reppert will be hostess. All members are urged to be on time. ♦ The Historical club will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Edgar Gerber. All members are requested to be present. * The members of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity will enjoy a ‘banquet at 7 o'clock this evening at the Bitner Case. During the dinner short talks will be made by several of the members and also by C. C. Pumphrey of the Pumphrey Jewelry store. —— • BONDS ARE FOUND Washington, March 20.—Liberty bonds valued at about $175,000, recently stolen from a branch of the United States treasury here, have been found in an old trunk hidden away in the attic or Charles A. Clevenger’s home, the United States Secret Service announced today. W. H. Moran, chief of the service, said the Clevenger, a 25 year old clerk in the branch office and U. O. Wamsley, former clerk arrested yesterday at Charlottesville, Vn„ have confessed to therobbery. one of the largest from the federal treasury in recent 'yeart.' t—$—»—WANT ADS EARN $ $ $

VOTE IN MAINE TODAY Augusta. M«-. March 20,-PolitlC.l eyes of the oast were focu.ed on Maine today when the third district voted in tho first test of strength between Republicans and Democrats since 1920. A representative was to be chosen to fill the vacancy cause by the resignation of John A. Peters. Candidates were Ernest L MeLean, Democrat, and John E. Nelson, Republican, both attorneys of Augusta. The district always has been strongly republican. Democrats have wag ed a strong fight this year. —a BLAZE AT COFFEE HOME The fire department was called to the home of Claude Coffee corner fifth and Marshall streets at 9:30 o'clock this morning when dust which had accumulated around the register oLlhe pipeless turnice became ignited and for a short time threatened to prove disastrous. The lire was out by the time the department reached the scene.

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+ TROOPS TO RETURN ♦ + Washington. Mar. 20—(8.» * + dal to Dally Democrat)—Presl ♦ + dent Harding baa directed the ♦ ♦ return of all American troops ♦ + from Germany. Secretary of ♦ + War Weeks announced today. ♦ + The American forces will be ♦ ♦ gradually withdrawn al the ♦ ♦ present rate until they are nil + + returned to. this country and it ♦ ♦is the plan that the last sol- ♦ + diers will be brought back to ♦ ♦ this country by the end of the ♦ ♦ fiscal year or before July 1. ♦ ♦ Secretary of War Weeks in a ♦ ♦ formal statement declared that + ♦ the gradual withdrawal of the ♦ + American troops now being + ♦ carried out will be continued un- ♦ ♦ tii the entire force lias been re- ♦ ♦ turned. At present Weeks esti- ♦ ♦ mated that there are about 4,000 ♦ ♦ troops on the Rhine. ♦ + Weeks stated that the order- ♦ + ing of the evacuation has no ♦ + connection with the provision in + + the pending army appropriation ♦ .♦ bill limiting thq. forces in ♦ + Europe to 500. ♦ ++♦+♦♦++♦♦+♦+*♦+

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