Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 21 May 1923 — Page 5

LOCAL NEWS

Mr*. John Oswalt left this morning ,> visit with Mr. James F. Jamison, at Haired. Ohio. Site will also bo the meat of Mrs. Hannah Kulbu at IJel pbos, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Anker motored Io Marion yesterday where they were i|ih guests of Mr. and Mrs. John 0 Brien. Mr. and Mrs. George Slebold, of Hamlet, and Clark Siebold, of Marion, returned to their respective homes after spending the week end witli Dr. i:. Hurns and family. i Mrs. Roy Archbold has returned from Toledo where she visited with her father and brother. Robert Nachtrleb. her brother, was operated upon for the removal of the appendix about (wo weeks ago. Mrs. C. B. Smith, of Detroit, visited in the city over Sunday with her mother, Mrs. C. R. Hamniell and family The Mises Marcella Teeple, Helen Bice. and Messrs. David Baker and Bernard Kintz motored to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon to attend the show. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Millenbaugh, of Fort Wayne; and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schmitt, of Columbia City, spent Sunday with the Frank Schmitt family. Chaliner Walters and Glen Jackson returned to Fort Wayne last evening alter an over Sunday visit with their parents, east of the city. Miss Mary Gaunt, of this city, is spending a few days with her grandmother, Mrs. L. Gaunt, and family east of the city. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Koos, of Decatur, attended the special Mothers’ Day services at the Calvary church last evening. Mrs. T D. Kern and daughter, Margaret, went to Fort Wayne to ppend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Peoples and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Helm and son. George were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Yahne at Fort Wayne Sunday . Mr. and Mrs. Charles True, of Poe wore the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis 11. Miller entertained with dinner Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. Clem Kortenbrer and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Miller. Mr and Mrs. J. D. Dailey, and daughter, Marietta, of Paulding. 0., were the guests of Mr. and. Mrs. Dallas Hower over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Miss Marie Gass visited in Portland! Sunday afternoon. Mrs. J. W. Tyndall went to Fort Wayne to spend the dnv with friends. Mrs. H. E. Keller and daughter, Mildred, spent the day in Ft. Wayne visiting friends. Mrs. F. I. Patterson went to Fort ALL STUDENTS interested in the Summer School please register Wednesday, May 23, at the Central School Building. Office will be open all day. Tuition need .not be paid at this time. Classes will not begin until June 4. W. Guy Brown

ITIPHEN DECATUK THE BEST ROAD The few dollars you deposit j, with us to start a Savings Account are not so important in themselves. The big thing is that you have really begun to ' save. There is no road that leads as directly to the shining goal as the savings road. < ountlcss 1 i others who have traveled it before point the way for us to follow. i ! A Savings Account will be a i help to you. Today is not too soon to start. j FirsCNatioiial Bqnk and Surplus Indiqnq

Wayne today to bo the guest of friends. Mrs. D. D. Clark and daughter, Winifred, went to Anderson to spend several days visiting relatives. Miss Bertha Heller returned to Indianapolis this morning after a 1 week’s visit here. Her mother. Mrs. D. I). Heller accompanied her and will ' visit in Indianapolis lor a few days. ’ . Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Coverdalo cole--1 brated their fifthieth wedding annr versary with a dinner at tho Murray Hotel yesterday and at the same time Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Vance observed their twentieth wedding date, both couples recciveing many congratula--1 tions, ■ ( Nick and Michael Miller re urned home Saturday evening from a ten days’ visit at West Baden Springs. Mrs. 1. W. Macy and daughter. Martha, arrived here last evening foi a few days. Mrs. J. H. Heller and Morris Haney motored to South Bend . Sunday morning and brought them hero. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Vonk of the Murray Hotel were called to New York state Saturday because of the . death of their ten months old granddaughter. D. B. Johnson of Indianapolis who talked in various churches here yes- . terday left this morning for Bluffton. •CLASSTRACiC MEET TUESDAY .Juniors And Seniors Appear Strongest In Interclass Meet Tomorrow Heated discussions have taken place among the high school pupils during the last few days as to which class will win the inter-class track and field meet to be held at Bellmont Park tomorrow afternoon, starting at 2:0 o’clock. The Juniors feel pretty Confident of copping the high honors since they have a large percent of the varsity team in their midst. However, the Seniors say they have the cream of the poitn getters, even if they are out-number-ed. The Freshmen and Sophomores are laying low ami planning to spring a surprise—maybe. Coach A. G. Moore will act as official starter. The judges will be Miss McCrory, Miss Reisen and Miss Anderson. The tlmekepeers will be Miss Rutledge and Miss Pugh. Floyd Gibson will be the official scorer. An admission price of 10 cents will be charged, the money to be used in purchasing numerals for the winners. The entries in the various events will be published in Tuesday's paper. o Portland, 12; Decatur, 1. Shewing a great need of practice, the Decatur American Legion baseI ball team met defeat at the hands of I the fast Portland Studebakers at Portland yesterday afternoon, score 12 to 1. This was the first game of the season for the local team. The locals were no match for their opponents and the lineup undoubtedly will be strenthened before another game is . played.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, MAY 21', 1923.

America’s Marvels NATURAL AND OTHERWISE By T. T. Maxey THE BOWERY Perhaps no other street In any other city In America has had a more Intensely interesting or varied career, has housed n more notorious population or Is known so far and wide as is The Bowery in New York City. “Bouwerie” is a Dutch word which corresponds to our word “farm.” The extensive estates or Great Bouwerie of Governor Peter Stuyvesant whom history’ records was tho last and the best of the governors of the Dutch colonies in America were located along the upper east side of New Amsterdam (now New York city). Bouwerie Lane was the main road leading north from the wall behind and protecting the city to Governor Stuyvesant’s Bouwerie. It extended from about where Chatham square now stands to the vicinity of the present junction of Third and Fourth avenues. Bouwerie Lane was subsequently shortened to Bowery Lune, which name In turn (about 1807) gave way to The Bowery which was handed down to and is used by the present generation. A tavern, known as Bowery House, was built on this road. The village surrounding it gradually came Into existence. The location of this community was between Second and Sixteenth streets and east of and along Second avenue ne-r the location of the present Stuyvesant square. The Bowery (Bouwerie Lane) was one of the first-named streets In the “New World." The Bowery, notorious In the extreme for years and years, as the hangout of lawless boys and others questionable character, has In more recent times taken on a new and a better life. The street at the present time is made up and patronized by a population of many nations and of many walks in life and is lined with a seemingly endless string of cheap stores, amusement houses, lodging places and pawn shops. Into the latter are brought hy shiftless individuals anything and everything that can be carried and which has a pawnable value. I once beard about an old Bowerite who had a wooden leg which he pawned daily as he started out on a round of be Ting, reclaiming his peg with the samp regularity as he returned to his hangout at night. Governor Stuyvesant died in 1672. His body was burled in the little cemj etery on his bouwerie. When St. Marks church at Second avenue and Eleventh street was constructed in 1795 the painstakingly inscribed tombstone over his grave was built into one of the walls. (©, 1923. Western Newspaper Union.) America’s Marvels NATURAL AND OTHERWISE By T. T. Maxey OLD GRANARY BURYING GROUND Within the confines of the older (eastern) states of this Union there are many ancient, quaint, and hallowed burying grounds, most of which closely surround or adjoin a much-loved chapel or meeting house. Among the most interesting of these is that precious plot of ground known as Old Granary Burying Ground, near the present business center in the city of Boston. The town grnnary once stood on this site —hence this peculiar name. The burying ground was established about the year 1640. Within this well-kept enclosure which Is surrounded by an imposing protective fence, lie the remains of three signers of the Declaration of Independence, nine governors, Peter Faneull, that public-spirited individual who presented the city the famous hall which bears his name; Paul Revere, that patriot who, vn April 18, 1775, warned his country of the marching of the British troops towards Lexington and Concord, and other notables of their time. Probably the most conspicuous headstone that graces the shaded covering .of the departed is that erected by Benjamin Franklin, the most important literary man of his day, In loving tribute to the memory of his father, Josiah, and his mother, Ablah. An outstanding feature of the plot are a number of nlmost-a-century-old elm trees which cast their shadows over this resting place. The epitaphs on many of the stones which mark these ancient graves are quaint, Indeed, and peculiar In the light of present-day custom. An unusual one reads: Hero Iveth ye body of John Downing, aged about 53 yrs., deed April ye 19. 1694. I bargain with Christ for room below. He grants a mansion In his upper storle: Thus God gives more than we do ask or know. Instead of grace uninterrupted glorle. Another: Here lies Interred the body of Mr. Thomas Crawford who departed this Ufa, Aug. 23(1, 1773, Aged 56. Stop here my friend and cast an eya. As you are now, so once was I; As I am now. so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me. A good name is better than precious ointment. (©, 1823, Western Newspaper Union.)

| Circuit Court | Daniel W. Beery and John W, Mothers vs. Fred Beery, motion by plaintiffs for change of venue from court sustained. Case scut to Jay circuit court. Assignment of Jacob O. Coolman, the presiding judge. Judge Jesse C. Sutton, having previously been counsel for certain claimants in the ease, declined jurisdiction and appointed It. H. Hartford, of Portland, special judge. Special Judge Hartford filed his appointment and oath. Marlon Dial et al vs. Elizabeth T. Rowan et al, R. H. Hartford filed his appointment and oath as special Judge and the case was set for making up issues on May 24. Janies Barr today was excusen from further service on tho petit jury during the April term of iourt. —— o— — WITH THE SICK Mrs. Henry Schwartz, of Grabill, daughter of Gideon Gerber, of Craigville, underwent an abdominal operation at her father's home this morning. She is doing nieely. Mildred Bell, five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bell, of Convoy, Ohio, underwent an operation at Magley’s hospital in this city this morning for removal of the tonsils and adnoids. Q S. W. Hale of Geneva was attending to business here this morning.

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