Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1922 — Page 5

1 J pff TIRED ACHING FEET are unnecessary. Pronei-lv iiu...i « . bound to give comfort. Property' fitted does large fitted or unsightly, it means fitted exact"y to the contour of the foot. Properly fitted footwear keeps the shape because there .s only strain where strain L ev pected and s rain is taken care of. You cannot get awav from this, it s just common sense applied. ** y CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE Does Fit Feet.

>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ • ABOUT TOWN * !«*«*«♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦++ William Linn spent last night at Van Wert. Mrs. Fred Schaffer and grandson spent the day in Fort Wayne. Harry Harlan, representative of the C. P. Lesh Paper company of Indianapolis was a business visitor in this city yesterday. If you know of any news of interest to others ’phone 51. The Decatur chapter of the Eastern Star lodge trill go in a body to Forf Wayne Saturday to attend an initiation ceremony. William Rodenbeck who resides east of this city was a business visitor in Decatur this morning. Shermau Alexander of near Wren was in this rity today on business. Elmo Ehinger, who returned last week from Notre Dame university, has accepted a position this summer with the General Electric company of this city. Misses Mary and Lois Ogg left this morning for Lake Michigan where they will spend a two weeks’ vacation. Mrs. S. E. Brown received word yesterday of the death of the eight month old baby of her niece, Mrs. Fred McKay,-at Pasedeua, Cal. The baby Was a grandchild of Sam Peoples. R. D. Hamilton of east of Decatur visited in this city today. Ernest Ehlerding of west of town was a business visitor in this city today. Marlip Kruckenberg who resides northeast of Decatur was in this cityon business this morning. P. M. Carper of near Peterson was a business visitor in this city today. Phillip Baker of west of Decatur was in town on business today. Jake Coos who iesides east of the city was a business visitor here today. ■ Walter Bluhm of east of Decatur was in town today on business. If you know of any news that would interest others call 51. J. W. Hopple of near Monroe was a business visitor in this city today. E. F. Miller of northeast of the city was in Decatur this morning on business. John Loshe who resides cast of Decatur was in town today on business. Andrew Wolpert of west of the city was in Decatur today on business. Miss Helen Gerard of Louisville, Ky., is visiting in Decatur at th" home of Miss Agnes Costello.

. .. .. XI4X - J- - - ::;:2i2zz: t-i X Z2Z2 2 2 2 2 |r| fc-3 - — I=l = Happiness and ::: Worry do not | ikeep house to- ::: get her. t:: > JE E? '’ i ( j; 1 FIRST NATIGNAI. BANK t: ;■ : 1 in 7 You Arc a Slranier Here bui Once BCTIX 2 IkhTh---Xmo»ho' ,u • r ♦ B 1 f ■ MW* ■ 4-M a. -4- BM3H M■MB ■ ■ T(taiw-^J’ VST k i | - -rT^ —'

’ A carload of print paper will be tin loaded at this office tomorrow morning. > The car contained 43,000* pounds of paper in rolls averaging <SO pounds apiece and was shipped by the Inter- , national paper company from Ches holm, Maine. . Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Koontz who have . moved to Indianapolis from West Mili ton, Ohio, arrived in the city last eveIning for a few' days visit here and at South Whitely with relatives and J friends. i Commissioner Hough of the State ' tax board is still unable to visit this session and go over the assessors and I board of review work relative to the ’ assessments in this county. He is still confined to his bed, suffering injuries in a fall last week. i Akron, 0., June 22—One person was probably fatally injured and , three others seriously burned in an explosion of the plant of the Diamond Match company at Barberton, near here, early reports today said CHICAGO GRAIN < I nit rd Pre** Service. > Chicago, June 22—Wheat: July. $1.13%; Sept. $1.14%; Dee. $1.17%. Corn: July Su'.ic; Sept. 67%c; Dec. ' 67%c. Oats: July 36%c; Sept. ' 3S%c; Dec. 41 %c: FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MARTIN LAUGHLIN TO BE HELD SATURDAY MORNING Funeral services for Martin Laugh lin, who died suddenly yesterday morn ing. will be held from the St. Mary's Catholic church at It o’clock Saturday morning. Burial will be held in the . St. Joseph < emetery. It was a special request of Mr. Laughlin that friends , please omit flowers. All of the children are here with the exception of Carl of Nirtb Dakota, win, is expect . ed to arrive sometime on Friday. K. OF C's. TO ATTEND THE LAUGHLIN FUNERAL Members of the Knights of Columbus are requested to meet at the hall at eight thirty Saturday morning for the purpose of attending the iuneial of Martin Laughlin, whose death occurred Wednesday morning. Fresh anti cold inciil. bottled milk find soli drinks all kept on ice and sold at the right price a! Steele's North End (irocery. Phone 381. II

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, JUNE 2*4 1922

MISSOURI SYNOD GROWS RffPIDLY

More I han a Million Souls arc Now Enrolled, Report Yesterday Shows The magnitude of the Lutheran Missouri synod was shown in the reports given at yesterday afternoon's session of the convention of the Central district being held In Fort Wayne. More than a million believers in the doctrines of Luther are now enrolled, a< cording to the report of Rev. G. A. Hernthal, of San Francisco, third vicepresident of the general synod. Institutions of higher education supported by the synod number 15, with teal estate valued at $3,759,000, at[tended by 2,358 students. Rev. Bernlhal stated. Othei facts included in his statistical report indicated a total of 2,5-10 pastors; 4,3(14 congregations and preaching stations, 1,023,849 souls an increase over the preceding yeor of 13,909; schools, 1,277; pupils, 73,190; Sunday schools, 1,819; Sunday School pupils, 120,625; baptisms, 36,114; continned, 27,000. Rev. Eckhardt reported on the financial condition of the organization, urging the representatives to lend their support to financing tlm work of the general synod as well as to the work of their district.

| I<-v. I’. A. Kleinhans. of Clevejaml, Ohio, chairman of the district mission board, reported that the cenjlral district is at the present time sup porting 28 pastors, who are serving :',2 congregations anil assisting 12 con gragations who would otherwise be tin able to employ the necessary number jof teachers required to carry on the wo-k in the parochial schools He reported further that the opportunities tor organizing missions have not by i by any means been exhausted. The initial business session of the convention, held yesterday morning, vi . largely concerned in doctrinal ! discussion. Rov. J. 1). Matthius, of i Indianapolis, president of the district ' i 'lined the chair. In the opening i address., Rev. Matthius exhorted his audience to accept the entire Scriplure as the revealed and inspired I word; and to study the doctrinal works of the Lutheran church. He 'declared that a church is on the de■cline as soon as it begins to show in 'difference toward its tenents or laxity in its practice. Rev. Idinkeuau, of Napoleon, 0., delivered a paper on “The Churcji and Missions,” Rev. Lankenau illustrated his discussion with a number of charts showing the eact situation of the Lutheran missions throughout ■ ih< universe. The morning conferem ■ s will be de 1 voted chiefly to doctrinal discussion ■and the organizing of committees, to msutne charge of the business of the ■convention, it is announced. The afternoon sessions will take up the bus! tiess part of the convention. aThe regular luncheon meeting oi the Rotarians will be held at six o'clock this evening at the Rotary rooms. dairy farmers meeting AT WILLIAMS SCHOOL ON ADAMS-ALLEN COUNTY LINE The meeting of all dairy farmers in the county who are interested in cooperative marketing or who are interested in obtaining more profits from their products, will be held in the school house at Williams, on the G. R. & I- railroad near the AdamsAllen county line, on next Monday evening. Interesting speakers will explain the cooperative marketing idea and the dairy farmers are cordially invited to attend. BAKE SALE The Pleasant Mills Methodist Ladies Aid will hold a bake sale In the Schmitt Meat Market at 9:30 o’clock next Friday morning. —— • — RAILROADS WILL ELECTRIFY The Illinois Central roadroad is spending millions of dollars to electrify witli fuel for locomotive power. It it were not for the initial cost many eastern roads would at once set about electrifying their systems. + + + +++ + + WEEK ENO EX( URSIONIS ON CLOVERLEAF i : ■■■ ' Toledo and n tmi), HU ing all trains Saturdays and Sundays, returning up to train No. 5," Monday. SUNDAY EXCURSIONS Toledo and Return.... .. $2.70 Going and returning Sundays. *+++♦♦♦+♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦[

— SBEJES HARD TO FIND SWIMMERS WHO CAN COMPETE WITH ILLINOIS ATHLETIC CLUB MAN lullril Pr«MM Mnil < orr<*M|*«u<leiit Indianapolis, June 22—With the series of recent record breaking performances by Johnny Weismuller, of the Illinois Athletic chib, the managers of the swimming carnival to be held In the Broad Ripple pool at Indianapolis, August 10, 11, 12. are con fronted with a real problem. This problem is to get competition for Weismuller. There are plenty of good swimmers among the athletes of America but few good enough to push Weismuller. It was about one week ago that Weismuller smashed four world's records in one day. He covered th< 4UO yard distance in 4 minutes, 40 2-5 seconds, which breaks the record by 14 seconds. He reduced the time for the 401 meters from 5 minutes. 14 2-5 seconds to 5 minutes, 8 1-5 seconds. Weis muller set a new mark in the 500 yari swim, doing the distance in 5 min ut.es, 10 seconds. In the 500 metei swim, he reduced the time from f minutes, 56 3-5 seconds to 5 minutes 52 seconds. AUTO RACES AT FORT WAYNE

One of the most thrilling automobile race meets that the central west liai witnessed in many mouths, will lx staged at Fort Wayne, Ind., next Sun day, June 25. under the auspices of th. Better. Sports club, an organization de voted to affording this section of thi country the best, tyere is to lie hail it high grade sports at the lowest possi ble cost. Eight daring drivers, sonn of whom have participated in sued notable events as the 560 mile Mem erial day race at the Motor speed way, Indianapolis, Ind.: the Union town, l’a . auto race and similar tour noys of first magnitude, will be in th' entry list for the big Fort Wayne classic next Sunday. Special arrangements are beinj made to take care of record crowds, a. it is felt certain that with such an ex cellent racing program in store, thou sands of people from this, and ollie, sections of the state will come to at tend the races. Special arrangement are being made for systematically parking Hie hundreds oi automobiles which will convey many race fans ti the race course in Centlivre park. The complete official list of driven who will participate in tjie speed tour ney includes: E. (’lemons, Columbus Ohio, Clemons Special; Frank Me ( lain, Muncie, Fronty-Ford; It. D. Noo nnn. Faris, 111., Overland; Schultheis Lima, Ohio, Essex; Ralph Ormsby Fort Wayne, Fronty-Fufd: Martin am Brett, Indianapolis. Marlin Brett Spec iai; Benny Larwill, Cleveland, Ruf Special; Bouahan, Fort Wayne, Ruf

Special. ,y WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD ♦ .p+++++++ + + + + ** + Yesterday’s hero -Ed Rommell Athletic pitcher, let the hard hitting Browns down with four bits, got twe singles in four times up and won, 5 to 0- > Scoring two runs in the 9th inning tlu’ White Sox beat Washington, 5 tc 4 and moved into a tie for fourth place with the Cleveland Indians. Bunched hits off Olsen aud an error by Rigney broke the Tigers winning streak of eight straight games and gave the Red Sox a 9 to 8 victory. Two homers by Parkinson and one by Lie were all the tallies the Phils ere able to get off Vie Aldridge and, the Cubs won 6 to 3 in a six inning BHine. „ . „ Three runs scored by a rally tn the tenth inning gave Brooklyn a wierd win over the Pirates, 15 to 14. With Babe Ruth again on the sidelines the Yanks got out of their slump with vengeance, rapped sixteen hits off to Cleveland pitchers and won, 7 to 3. - MOTORCYCLE RACES AT MONTPELIER NEXT SUNDAY A motorcycle race meet will be Staged at Montpelier next Sunday afternoon, Juno 25, the event being staged by the Entronuse Motorcycle Club of Marion. The meet will be bold on a new trank which was built especially for motorcycle races, it being almost a circle. 70 to 90 feet, wide and covers a distance of onehalf mile. Up to today, eleven entries have been filled and it is expected by the club that several more entries will be made before Sunday. The track is in excellent condition and a high rate of speed ts expected to be made. The Entronuse Club

has leased the track (or three years,' and urp anticipating of holding several meets throughout the year. ACTION AGAINST SALE OF GLANDS Illinois and California Legislatures Taking Action Through Bills (lulled rrrMM Mervlrr.) Chicago, Juno 28. —(Spec ial to Daily Democrat) —An effort will be made to stop traffic in human glands by state legislation. Members of the Illinois and California legislatures already have aunounc ad they will introduce bills aimed to halt such operation as the one recent y reported to have been performed in Harold F. McCormick, Chicago Hur venter king. State representatives Thomas J O'Grady and Laurence ('. O'Brien will auuch the bill in the Illinois legis aturp while assemblyman William Hornblower, of San Francisco, will 'cad the anti gland sale faction on the mast.

"It is no more right for a man to yell li|s life giving gland.) than for a woman to sell her virtue" Assemblynan Hornblower declared. -a — >—s—s—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s WANT ADS EARN—s—3—s ■ • Out' quick delivery service, ylus low price anti quality mer‘handise is winning us new ■uslomers each week. Try your text order here. Phone 381. itvele’s North End (irocery. GENEVA NEWS Mrs. Sherman Armantrout and chil Iren spent the week-end in Geneva isitiug her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. ). Callihan and family. Robert Juday of Ft. Wayne spent he week-end here visiting relatives md friends. Some of the young men who are vorking in Muncie spent the week end lere at their parental homes. Miss Pearl Eekroat spent Sunday in Jerne witli her sister, Mrs. Franklin Spru liger. Miss Dorothy Brown went to Borland 1 Saturday afternoon t<> visit at he home of 1.. R. Houser and family. Miss Ina Woodruff, who is working it Ft. Wayne, spent the week-end at mine with her parents east of town. Paul and William Paxton, who are working at Ft. Wayne, spent the weekend here with their mother, Mrs. da Paxton. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lynch returned o their home in Hartford City last Sunday evening after spcndiijg several lays visiting with Dr. L. L. Mattax and amily. John Banta, wife and daughter. Leah md Miss Esther Reynolds left Sunday afternoon for Tri laake where they vill spend this week. Ralph Snyder 'nd family motored to that place Mon day morning and are spending the re naiudei of the week with them. Several from this place attended the uneral of Mrs. Ralia Macklin, which was held last Sunday morning at the Macklin church south of Geneva.

■*** “Watch me,” said * th o stron " swimmer, “I’m not afraid” So he matched his strength Coffee can disturb nerves and against the swirl of the rapids, digestion, and often it doos. and laughed at the danger, and There's a safe and satisfying kept repeating the stunt, until course for every body in the ... selection of a table drink. It was the day the life-savers had been waiting for—that day Postum has charm without the call for help came. barm. It’s the safe drink for all, and probably, therefore, it's It’s an easy matter to smile the better drink for you. at coffee warnings when you’re Thousands have found it better, going strong. and fully satisfying, for them. Your.grocer hns both forms of But a good many Strong Postum: Instant Poatum (in tins) swimmers won't risk the rapids, “ s and a good many coffee drinkers cwd (in packages of larger bqiic. are beginning to think of the caffeine in coffee. made by boiling for fully 20 minutes. “There’s a Reason” for Tostum Made by Postum Cereal Company, tpc.. Battle Creek, Mictugw

di* Kuppenheimer Air-O-Weave Suits Keep you cool and keep their shape You want comfort in your summer clothes—but you also want correct style and fit. i Kuppenheimer Air-O-Weave suits always look neat and smart. They don’t wilt into a shapeless sack after a little wear because they’re as carefully designed and tailored as other Kuppenheimer Good Clothes. Light, medium and dark tones in Palm Reach, gabardine, tropical worsted, mohair and other cool fabrics. $20.00 to $25.00 Others $12.50 and up Vance & Linn —the house of Kuppenheimer good clothes “WE ARE NOT SATISFIED UNLESS YOU ARE”

Mrs. Macklin died Friday after suffer ing for several months witii camey. She is well known here as several years ago she was a seamstress here, but was employed in tile overall factory at Berne before her health be came such that she was forced to quit working. Miss Dorothy Brown left for Chic* go Tuesday afternoon where she wifi spend the summer visiting her siste|. Mrs. Wm. Heller. Miss Edith Whiteman went to Fort Wayne Sunday evening where she will be employed this summer. Henry and Robert Banta motored to

this place last Sunday morning and spent th” day at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Banta. They were accompanied to their home in Columbbim, ()., by the former’s wife and c hildren, who have visited her for tlio past month. The 1 Children’s Hay services at the M. E. church last Sunday evening were well attended. A fine program, which was greatly enjoyed by all, was reordered by the children. Quite a few young people from Geneva and vicinity attended the Epworth League convention at Bluffton Monday and Tuesday.