Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 308, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1923 — Page 5

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Miss Loretta Xeller, of Mansfield, Olito, is visiting with her cousin Mrs. Frank Barthol and family here. \\\ A. Kuebler returned Saturday from Cleveland where ho was the guest of his brother for the past weekjoe Swearinger, of Racine, Wis„ is the guest of his mother, Mrs, Lulu Swearinger. Mr. and Mrs. E4 Yahne, of Fort Wayne, were girests of Mrs. Yahnes parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Helm and family, here, yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bast low, 0 f Richmond, are here to spend New Year's Day with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Helm. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Alir and son. Lloyd, the Misses Mary Macy and jest eon Hocker and Charles Hite, spent Sunduy at Fort Wayne visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilson are spending New Year's with the J. s. Peterson family. Miss Lois Peterson was the guest of friends at Fort Wayne Sunday. Miss Mary Oman, of Rluffton. will arrive this afternoon to spend New Years day with the John T. Myers family. Mr. and Mrs. Wal WenthofT have as their guests Mrs. Wemhoff s mother. Mrs Weber and daughter, Ora, of Indianapolis. James L. Loar has organized the Loar independent Chautauqua compain, with officpsat Bloomington, ill., Among the new cities and towns hooked by Mr. I.oar for the 1924 sea son are Marion. O. Maysville. Ky . Georgetown, Ohio; Piqua, O. and other large cities. It is not known if Ik-catur will have a Chautauqua

next summer or not. Less Ilian 300 subscription were obtained last year for a return engagement. Hr. J. C. Grandstaff, county health officer was a business vislior in the city today. Mr. Grandstaff is compiling his annual report of vital statistics for the year and nrges those who report to him to send in their reports as soou as possible. It is believed that the death rate will be lower than last year. One or two' deaths have occurred front tuberculods this ye*r. Dr. Grandstaffs report covera only the rural communithe health officers jn the towfi* and city k'-eping a seperale report. Henry It. Heller has returned from Kansas City. Mo., where he looked after business matters. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Falk and children. Constance Mary ami Charles John, of Peru, will lm guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. L Mothers New Year's day. The Misses Rowena Miller and Mary Buttles will return to Delewarc.: 0., tomorrow to resume the! r studio-' at Ohio Wcslyan t’nlrcr: ity. alter spending the holidays here with their parent*. Thu Misses Margaret Dollhouse, •rone Dollhouse and Helen Gas* and Messrs. Louis Meyer. Bill Hildebrand and Guy Kohler attended a allow in Fort Wayne last evening. Miss Catherine Christen of Fort 'Vayne spent the week - ml with h r parents. Mr. and Dick Christ- it here. Miss Winifred Kitsoti will lie tu«Wat of Miss Catherine Christen over

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N’uw 'ear's d= ; - at Fort Wayne. Wavn' 1)owlin »f' of Fort W ttyne, former Decatur lady and , daughter of Mrs. n. J. Terveer Z BUllerl i ns fron > ‘I high fever the ->«>•«• Her son, Donald, recovering from an attack of pneu- ! ZT*« S AnnU Dowli "« * this , l city went to Fort Wayne yesterday . ojtof a few days at the Dowling , 1 , Mr uml Mf s. Charles Nelson and ' , sons have returned to Ft. Wayne “Her spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. u. S. Drummond. Mrs. Harry Kooken. of Hammond, is visiting friends here for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Murray Sulton arrivI ed this afternoon to spend New . 'ears day with Judge and Mrs. J. c ■ Sutton. Mt. and Mrs. Jud Everett, of Wren Ohio, were visitors here today. Kddis Johnson, cf south of the city, visited friends here this afternoon, t Fred Andrews ami John Shirk visited the C. A. Shirk familv at Mon--1 rocville Sunday. f C. C. Pumphrcy went to Delaware s to visit with his mother, Mrs. Mary' Puifflihrey over New Year's day. s Hugo Franz, of Root township, was' ■, a business visitor in the city this af-' i. ternoon. Rudolph Welland, of Preble, was e h, ' rP today looking after business, j •j Kr<l d Kruckeberg. of Root towHthlp' attended to business interests here t this afternoon. Mrs. Fred Fttllenkamp visited rcla „ | tives at Fort Wayne this afternoon. ! ji " ■ Klepjier made a business trip' n to Fort Wa/ne today. a Miss Mary Callow went to Fort' 0 Wavne this afternoon to visit friends.

Rural Schnols Rc-opcnod Today; Exams This Week The second semester examinations in the rural schools in the rural schools in the county will be bold on January 3rd and 4th, it was announceed at the county s< hool superinten dent's office this morning. The rural schools opened this morning after being closed one week for the Christmas vacation. The schools at Monroe also opened this morning. The Decatur schools w ill not open Mint il next Mon liar. IT ran rrw-tr va< atron being given this year. The St. Joseph and Decatur Catholic high schools will open on Thursday of this week after I icing closed fSr the Christmas vacation. Broken Arch Bar Causes Wreck At Columbia City Fort Wayne. Im!.. Ih-c. 31 A brokten arch bar. the result of a hot box I was the cause of the rail accident at ■Columbia City Saturday night when a westbound Pennsylvania passenger train slUtwiped an eas! bound !freight causing damage to perishable freight and equipment approximately *3'iti,eoo Twenty-two of the fit':* two cars in the freight train were damaged beyond salvage. 19 of them •. having benn derailed. No one was i ■ injun-l. Four wreck trad cleared un the debri- after IS hour* of work. . j '"O — —- ■ l-^^^ANTAI^KARN^^^*

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AUCTION SCHOOL STARTED TODAY Twenty-seven Students On Hands At Opening; More To Coine The annual winter term of the Reppert Auction School opened tills morning with nn enrollment of twen-ty-seven Btudents. More students are expected to arrive this evening and tomorrow. A total of approximately forty men registered for the term and most of these arc expected to lie enrolled before the term is far under "way. Tile school Is being held in the Urn ham & Walters building on South Second street,, and this room splendidly fills the needs of the school. Col. Reppert, president of the school, stat cd today that indications were that tlie school would have a very successful term this winter, us a large attendance is assured and a splendid corps of teachers has been obtained Two New instructors The faculty of the school this term t insists of Col. Reppert; Col. Earl Gartin, of (ireensbttrg; John Luthun, ( of-Lake Geneva. Wisconsin; Coi. II j 1.. Ileheart, of Elizabethtown, Kenj lucky; William Johnson, of Chicago; . Col. H. U. Kneisley and Col. Roy S. Johnson, of Decatur; and Coi. Guy i lvttit. of Bloomfield, lov-a. Col. John son and Col. Pettit, are new mem | hers of the faculty, while the others are well known hero. The daily auctions will lie started by the school next Saturday afternoon I and evening and will be held each j evening thereafter. The public is cordially invited to bring articles to ! these sales, to be sold by the student auctioneers anil to attend the sales school room on South Second street. lar.d obtain some of the many bargains. The sales will be held in the A big community sale will lie held, i probably In the largo feed liaru on First street, on Saturday, January 12, GLEANING CITY SCHOOL HOUSES — Janitors Preparing For Reopen ine Os School On Next Monday Th- Janitors at thu ward and high st hool buildings in this city are busy I this week cleaning anti disinfecting j tiie rooms, preparatory to opening m hool next Monday after a two weeks' vacation over the holidays. The Me- : end semester will open on January ISth and the reorganization of the (lasses will take place on that day. I Tin- sc mister c xaminalons will bo held on January lith and 15th and tin,l mid year promotions In the grades i ami high school will follow. Every pupil in the fourth grade and tip. and t in the high school are required to take | the tests. N Now j Owing to tie fart that all children ; who were »r who wlti be six years of of age on nr before January 1. 1924, , were admitted to school In Septenib«T. no i Itildreti will be admitted with the [ lo ginning of the second semester. M. i F. Worthman. superintendent of pub i lie schools, itutounn-d this mornßis, Tito enrol!WMt in the grade- and high nr Kurds this year is SVS, one of th,i jarg- t enrollments ever known i in the hi»tory of th<* IH-mtur schools. 51 Seniors This Year If nil of th«- students sro suceessfsl I ;ind pa* * the necessary lest*, the 1924 1 1 lass will be the largest ever grad i tinted from the De« atur Public high school. There SM 54 In the class this ! vrnr. tbi* hem* two mere than any ■ a her * I is- Hi had. Thct-v art* * f in th-< Freftitnsn clsas this year and I tndlratlons tire that the graduating J from the IV-altir high school : will iutttlßuc to b-- over the- .Vi mark unit near the nit mark for the next 'few years. The semester periods are divided into 1* weeks each. —— ... The Miss.* •Ucrsblfne , MtulUi, Gladys Becker uttd Funs lance i.-ickmWs are visiting Mlaa Helen DrwnK-rkaisp at Hmtsiaml today. ■ - WELCOME MOOSE t Jk * 1 'xJStmM Tuesday Evening Unriilar Merlins MOOSK iiu.mi; Third Slrwt.

Kirkland Anieneva Teams MeHere Friday The Kirkland I Geneva high school basket ball las will meet in a game to be pit* in the old high school gymnasium this city next Friday night. Nir of the teams has a gymnasium whic h to play or practice, but botljve been making

a good record thi Sson. Kirkland, especially, has I traveling at a fust pace, wlnnln ne of ihc-ir ten games played. eral basketball fans say that if i land had a gym where the boys i get the much needed practice, - would have a good chance at -district honors this year. The be some to Decatur alantt one a wee <r a workout In the gymnasium t Charles Houg roaches the teat Geneva players have an old barn vliich they practice but they pla} of their games away from home, food game is ex pected hero Flrda |ght. Lutheran Mis narios Capturf By Bandits Hankow, China, c. :!I—lt is reported here that jdits have captured at Tsaoyan three American Lutheran mlssionii a. Mr. Hoff and his wife and Mn iilen. Mr. and Mrs. Hoff are said lie wounded. Anolher report yg three missionaries were kil Bonds Taken f Yejf^s At Cri ville Found — ; IRuffton. Dec. —Bonds worth $2,400, which were i'-n in the Craig ville hav been recovered. Part of them wet found on West Market street hv little daughter of Oscar Loekwc on Thursday night. Chief of Po i Henry Gohrett was notified and a! a search found ollic rs. bringing tli olal to 92,400. M. S. Smith, heac t tlie agriculturnl department or I Id hlf ton hlglt school tcslay Jclet ed th'* heavy hammer with a r handle which was used by the ro rs as belonging

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We Thank You - Last Saturday marked the opening of our beautiful new store —in our former quarters —and we wish to extend our appreciation and thanks to the general public for \\ wish you their visit during the day. o e and all I ' The attendance was indeed far above riArl Y j y|tj> expectations, and if by chance you we v e HFALTIIY \mable to receive our personal attention , while in the store, or failed to find time to * ncl 1 visit us, we extend a most cordial invitation PROSPEROUS I for your visit here in the near future. NEW YEAR 1921 NEW AND UP-TO-DATE FUR- - NITURK OK EVERY DESCRIPTION WILD GREET YOU. COME IN AND LOOK AROUND. Beavers & Fryback

to him. He said that the hammer 'had been taken from his garage oil tho night of tlie robbery. Mr. Smith lives on West Market Street. Convention Os Klan To Be Held In February (United Prtj,ss Service) Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 31—(Special to

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r I Daily Democrat)—A convention of i 1 the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to 1 1 make the organization what it should j be or to kill it will be held here February 15-20, E. Y. Clarke, former lm- | perial wizard, announed today. f Clarke, in an open letter Inst week. | asking President Coolidge to inter--1 venc in the factional strife in the ol hooded orlder, declared the klan was

not following Us original purposes. and should cither he cleaned up or killed. - ii n--"-0 •••—mm Charles Ernst of Fort Wayne was a business visitor In the city today. , , o— — Have a Rood lime at the K. of I*, dance Tuesday evening, January Ist, K. of I*, hall. F-S-M