Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1924 — Page 3

"Local Briefs

ffi h » V * ti,ne ‘ | ■ S,n "' his everbuddy liked 'em I, « they hke 'emseiveH. Now mobiles are ho <h.ap W r' lt seems like « *“-»•■”■ “ me ■ rl "'"" l,!1 bthv i walk.-Ahe Martin, te »ch a ba»». ■ and Adelaide ITh returned from a three- | TrU Tlii at Cleveland, Ohio. ■ «^ ks i Mrs L E Somers and son I 7 Trends’ at Bluffton Sunday. | Vi Ji Amanda Truelsch. of CleveT 0 is spending a weeks vaeai her parents. Rev. and Mrs. u Truelaeh at St. Johns. % r and Mrs. Sant Butler and son »mh and daughter. Gladys, and R ‘' \ schug motored to Fort Wayne Say‘and attended the Butler reTand Mrs. John T. Myers motorto Rome City Sunday aid spent the .... with friends. Miss Beatrice Keller spent the day Fort Wayne visiting friends. Miss Mayme Deininger made a busi„M trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Mr' Laura Crill and son. Ralph. s pent the day in Fort Wayne visiting friends and relatives. Mrs Charles N. Christen and daughter Germaine and Bernadine, have returned from’a four-week’s outing at Long latke. Clark Spahr, of Detroit, Michigan. is spending his vacation here with relatives. I Mr and Mrs. D. M. Reed and family have returned to their home at Indianapolis afte a two-week’s visit with Mrs. Reed's mother, Mrs. M. Fullenkamp. Miss Rose Fullenkamp accompanied them home for a two-week visit. Mr. aud Mrs. S. V. Johnson and daughter. Thelma, and son. Meredith, have returned to their home at Wamkoneu. Ohio, after visiting relatives ' here. Mr. and Mrs. T. I). Kern and daughters. and the Misses Helen* Meyer and Virginia Keller motored to Celina. Ohio, Sunday. Miss Donna Parrish and Frank Rowley spent Sunday afternoon at Fort Wayne. Miss Geraldine Everett is visiting her aunt. Mrs. Belle Leichtensteiger, and family, near Wren, Ohio. Miss Helen Everett has returned from Bloomington, where she attended summer school at Indiana University. She is visiting relatives here. , Clark Spahr, of Detroit, is visiting at the Fred Nichols home, and also with his wife, who is a patient at the Aadms County Memorial hospital. A girl, Phyllis Jeanne, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Spahr on August 2. Atty, and Mrs. Herbert A. Luckey and daughter, Ruth Pauline, of Indianapolis, are spending three weeks at Klinger Lake, near La Grange. They will return to their home the first of September stopping in Decatur and Portland enroute for a short visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Kist, of Portland. left Saturday on a motor trip to Des Moines, lowa. They will be gone several days. Mrs. B. N. Schultz, of Detroit, Mich, is visiting at the honp- of her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, of Preble. C. 0. Knight, of Fort Wayne was a business visitor here this morning. Air. and Mrs. I. B. Butler motored

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to Fort Wayne Sunday and attended the Butler reunion at Sweeney Park. Miss Margaret Mylott and John Teeple spent last evening in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Irvin Acker and daughter, Eva ate visiting relatives at Bryan, O. Mr .and Mrs. Pierre Goodrich and N daughter, Frances, Mr. and Mrs. <. A. Dugan and daughter, Helen, and granddaughter. Peggy Morton, motored to Huntington Sunday and spent the day with friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lower and Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Linn left today on a motor trip to Alliance, Ohio where they will attend the Lower family reunion to be held there Wednesday and will visit other points in that section before returning home Friday. Walter Wilkinson and family motored to Fort 'Wayne Sunday for a visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kirsch visited Fort Wayne friends Sunday evening. Colonel Foreman and family visited in Fort Wayne Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Tyndall and son, Ralph, arrived home Sunday evening from a three weeks motor trip through the east. They visited relatives in Ohio and then went on to Washington. Philadelphia. New York City, Niagara Falls and other points. Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Macy and daughter. Martha, of South Bend. Ind., arrived in this city Saturday evening. Mrs. Macy and* daughter will remain for a several days visit at the J. H. Heller home. Mr. Macy left Sunday evening for a short business tr’p in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Conter, of Gary, are spending two weeks in this city at the Durkin residence on South First street. Byard Smith, of Fort Wayne spent Saturday evening in this city visit ing friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ray McCollum motor ed to Celina, Ohio, Sunday. Mrs. Florence Meyer and daughter Naomi, and Harold Frazier, motored to Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Whitright and daughters, Helen and Gladys, and Francis Howell spent Sunday at Celina, Ohio. Miss Georgia Vachon, of Markle, visited friends here today. | Miss Florence Fishbough, of Bluffton visited friends here Sunday morning. Harvey Brittson, of Wren, Ohio, was a business viator in the city Saturday. Mr. Will Phillips, of Lima, Ohio, is visited his mother, Mrs. E. A. Phillips here over the week end. Mrs. Joe Shaffer, of Muncie was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Shaffer, over the weekend. Mrs. Shaffer was accompanied home Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. John Shaffer and son. Kenneth. ' Wilson Lee spent Sunday at Winona Lake. Mrs. Lee has been visiting friends there for the past sev-. eral days. Mrs. Margaret Huber and Miss Ida Weldy, of Marion, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Johnson. Miss Irene Walter and Miss Ade laide Truelson have returned from a thret weeks visit at Cleveland, Ohio with Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Seibble of

DECATUR DAILY. DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1924.

Orchid street, and Mr. and Mrs. J A. Rode, of Hilgert Drive. They were guests of honor at a dinner and theatre party given by the Misses Renn Joan and Amanda Truelsch at the "Far East.” A now roof is being placed on the Ur. J. 8. Boyers homo, corner of Third und Monroe streets. Miss Rowena Shoaf, a nurse in the Ford hospital at Detroit, arrived here Saturday for a few days visit with relatives aud friends. The annual retreat of the priests of the Fort Wayne diocese will be held this week at Notre Dame University. South Bend. Rev. J. A. Seimetx, rector of the St. Marys Catholic church and Rev. Otto Peters, assistant pastor, left today to attend the retreat. They will be gone until next Saturday.. A meeting of the directors of the Decatur Industrial association will be heid this evening at seven o'clock at the Industrial rooms. All members are urged to be present. A short session will be held. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Ehinger and sons, David and Charles, left yesterday on a motor trip to Green Bay, Wisionsin. where they will visit with Mr. Ehinger's sister, Sister M. Antoinette, formerly Miss Ethel Elunger of this city. Several family reunions were held Sunday at Bellmont Park. The Misses Genevieve Burling and Mae Berling and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Briede motored to South Bend Sunday. Miss Rowena Shoaff, of Detroit, Michigan, is visiting relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dowling and children, of Fort Wayne, visited Mrs. Mary Terveer and daughter, Mayme here last evening. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Vance and daughter, Lee Anna, and Miss Della Sellemeyer have returned from a three weeks motor trip. They visited at Chicago. The Dells, Wis., where they saw an Indian Pow Wow; from there they visited at Hibbing the noted iron region, where they saw the greatest public school building in the world, which is a three million dollar construction. Minneapolis. Minn., was their next stop and they camped there in the Minnehaha Park over night. They visited the Mayo Hospital at Rochester and came home through lowa and toured southern Indiana. The Vances camped and cooked their own meals. They traveled a total of 3,014 miles. Martin Jaberg and Clark Clevenger returned Saturday evening from a fishing trip at Hog Lake, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith and family of Rochester, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Anderson, and then motored to Van Wert, Ohio, where they visited relatives. Mail for Mrs. Mettietta Myers. Mr. Clyde Spencer. Jasper Leroy Smith. Mr. Thomas Thompson. Mr. J. S. Hamilton, Mr. Jake Barkley, and William Ostermeyer, is being held unclaimed at the local postoflice by postmaster, Harry Fritzinger. — o HEARING ENTERS ITS FINAL STAGE (Continued From Page One) 3. Justice with mercy. Clarence Darrow, chief defense attorney, who will make the principal defense argument, admitted today that the state alienists, placed on the stand to help hang the youths, have given him one of his most potent weapons—the plea of youth. His own alienists have confined themselves to building up a case of diseased mentality. From the state alienists Darrow forced the admission that the period between puberty and adolescence is the most trying time of life —when one is most apt to violate the conventions. This period was fixed by the alienists as between 15 to 21. Leopold and Loeb are both 19. The plea of partial responsibility, which Darrow will link with youth, is based on the testimony of his own alienists. Darrow hopes to convince Chief Justice John R. Caverly, who has the power to hang the youths, or to confine them to the penitentiary tliat Nathan and Richard are not wholly responsible for the murder liecause, their minds are partially diseased. Darrow will produce records from this county to help support his plea for justice Kith mercy. The hanging records of Cook county do not. show a single case of hanging where a minority has pleaded guilty to murder. Oh the other hand, they show prison sentences, up to life terms, for youths who pleaded guilty and threw’ themselves on the mercy of the court. Darrow was the defending attorney in one case. State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe reiterated today that he would demand hanging. There is no basis lor the fantastic medical defense built around the youths,” he said.

STORM CRIPPLES WISCONSIN TRAIN SERVICE ? » <• I I This locomotive took a nose dive over an embankment near Milwaukee when rain washed out the road bed. MILWAUKEE, Wis. —The above photo shows the engine which hit a washout and plunged over embankment near Milwaukee, Wis., following the heavy wind and rain storm which swept the state recently. Train service to the flooded and washed out area was crippled for many hours, bridges were out along the line, and great bowlders were washed into the tracks.

Tuesday Civic Section of Woman’s Club — Library, 2:00 p.m. Indies’ of Bobo Church, social— Church Lawn. Tri Kappa—Miss Helen Dugan, 8 p. m. Quten Esthers, Miss Monai Butler. 7:30 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Franks entertained at dinner yesterday for Miss Lillian Buhler, of Marion, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Frank and Mrs. Frank Christ. Mrs. A. A. Buckmaster, of Fort Wayne, Lillian Buhler, of Marion, and R. L. Smith were guests at dinner last evening of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Christ on North Seventh street. ★ The second reunion of the McGill family was held at Bellmont Park, yesterday. The first reunion was held in Van Wert county. Ohio, thir-ty-two years ago this month. The next meeting will be held at Bellmont park, this city, in August, 1925. The members were arranged for a group ' picture by Mr. Porter, after which a fine dinner was served in the grandstand. Those present were: Mr. and Mrrs. Robert McGill. Warren. Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Albert McGill, Sturgis. Mich; Mr. and Mrs. Janies McGill. Van Wert, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Gail and Miss Fannie McGill, Mr. and Mrrs. Perry McGill, Merlin and Clive McGill, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Schnepp and children. Naomi and Dwight; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harker, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harker and children, Thresa and Hope, of this city; Carl Gaskill and children, Jerome and Flo., Elkhart, Ind.; Billy Owens, Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Murphy, Van Wert; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Schnepp and children. Esther and Hubert. Berne; Mrs. Wilma Tindall, and children. Garrett, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Doty, Portland; Bessie and Rebecca Taylor, Decatur; Mr. Fin Pfiefter. Van Wert; Francis Bauer, Magley; Mrs. R. A. Sproul, Convoy, O.; Rhea Halshman, Ft. Wayne; Alma Hertle and Mildred Ralston. Van Wert, O.; Betty Blech, Lima Ohio; Chauncey Sproul and daughter. Omega, Sidney, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Sproul and children, Evelyn. Leora Jielen and Albert Van Wert, O.; Oliver Sheets, Mrs. Geo. Sproul. Wren O.; Mrs. Cora Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller and sons, Lewis and J-'loyd. Ft. Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Oren Shilts and sons, Donald and Owen Dean, Convoy, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Glass. Scott, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Claud Linkhart and children. Nandas, Bernice, Eugene. Gertrude. Russell, Lil lian and Jack. Ft. Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Warner and children, Vesta and Thelma. Convoy, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Orval Foley and children. Bernice, Mabel, Lillian. Frederick, Esther, Cecil, Ruth and Evelyn, Convoy, O.; Mr. and Mrs. James Foley and children, Henry, Raymond, Luetta, Clifford and Lytle, Convoy, O.; Miss Justine Zerkel, Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Lester Tumbleson and children, Gertrude and Charles, Decatur; Mrs. Gertrude Clemens, Bobo, Ind.; Bettie June Chronister,, Magley, Ind Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Everett, Decatur. Ind. ★ Coffee-Heljble Wedding The marriage of Joseph F. Coffee.

[ well known young man of this city and Mrs. Estella Hobble took place at seven o’clock this morning at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, Rev. Octo A. Peters, assistant pastor, officiating. Mathias Coffee and Miss Mary Co’ffee, brother and sister of tl,e groom, attended the couple and the ring ceremony was used. Mi. Coffee is a foreman at the Decatur Produce company. They will make their home in this city, Mr. Coffee owning a home on South Third street. ★ The Tri Kappa sorority will meet with Miss Helen Dugan Tuesday evening at her home on Monroe street. Miss J irene Gregory will be the assistant hostess. Members are urged to be present. The floor lamp which was given away by the black side of the sorority was won by Miss Jesteen Hocker, Saturday evening. ★ The Civic Section of the Woman’s Club will meet Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock at the library instead of 2:30 as previously announced. The change is being made so the meeting will not conflict with the meeting of the League of Women Voters. The meeting will be dismissed in time for the members to attend the meeting at the hospital. All members are urged to noice the change and be there promptly at two. ★ A number of friends enjoyed a picnic supper at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. William Meshbarger last evening. Those who attended included Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schroyer and children. Frederick and Catherine; Mr. and Mrs. Guy Parkerson; Mr. and Mrs. Orval Baughman; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller; Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Miller; Mr. and Mrs. Alva Lawson; Mr. and Mrs. Ferd O'Brien; Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Doane and children, Gladys and Annabelle; • Mr. and Mrs. Lew Gehrig; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brodbeck and sons, Richard and Robert; Gail Kern, Carrol Cole, Waller Miller, Edgar and Helen Meshbarger. ♦ Blossom Reunion The third annual reunion of the Blossom family was held at Bellmont Park Sunday with sixty relatives and friends in attendance. The election of officers was held and Mrs. Hattie Blossom, of Rockford, Ohio was elected presilent;. L. A. Graham. Decatur, vice-president; and Mrs. Lillie Burkhart, stcretary and treasurer. A basket dinner was served at noon. The reunion next year will be held the third Sunday in August at the same park. Out-of-town guests were Dr. J. G. Blossom and family, and Ben Blossom and family, of Richmond; Ben Blossom and family of Rockford, Ohio, and James Blossom and family, of Ottawa, Ohio. . ★ Worden Reunion Sixty-six were in attendance at the i annual Worden reunion which was held at Bellmont park Sunday. During the election of officers George Worden, of Fort Wayne, was named president; Miss Florence Worden, secretary; Cliff Brown, vice-presi-dent, and Harve Butler, treasurer. The committee on arrangements for next year includ.es Mrs. Clyde McClure, Will Meyers and Florence Worden. The reunion will be held at. ■ Bellmont park next year on the first Sunday in August. Relatives from Homer. Micihgan, Albany, Marion and Fort Wayne, attended the affair. The Queen Esthers Society of the

Methodist church will meet at the home of Miss Monai Butler at 7:30 o’fcloek Tuesday eMtning. C HICAGO - GR AIN CLOSE Wheat: Sept. $1.30%; Dec. $1.35%. May $1.31%. Corn: Sept. $1.22%; Dec. $118%; May $1.19%. Outs: Sept. 54c; Dee. 57c; Muy (10% c. ~ BOY SCOUT NOTICE!” The regular meeting of the Boy Scouts will not be held this evening. MW’.MMMIsnMIiMiMr SAl*»•>>>. FIRE DESTROYS FARM RESIDENCE, PETERSON (Continued from Page One) imiMissible to reach the cistern, which was located alongside of the house and the water connection could not he made. A horse trough in the

JUST RECEIVED A shipment of TOP MATERIAL for roofs on closed cars. It is especially made for closed car work being extra heavy, and absolutely waterproof. K DRIVE YOUR CAR IN NOW and have a new roof put on, before the inside of top becomes soiled. Water getting to the glued joints of a closed car roof will not do it any good either. We also recover AUTOMOBILE TOPS —make SIDE CURTAINS, and repair or rebuild the upholstery of your car. PORTER & BEAVERS I Automobile Accessories, Tops and Painting Monroe and First Streets Phone 123 —■ i . 111 ' 1 •— s Saving 500 Million Dollars Annually THE Oil and Gas Journal, of July 24, 1924, says: “Measured in terms of what is saved car and truck owners in the prices they must have paid for gasoline, if no cracking process had been in use. cracking saved the mptorist last year probably $500,000,000.” “And this is the significance of cracking,” continues this journal —“a significance that can be measured in dollars saved to the millions who call at the filling station for gasoline ” The entire business of cracking gasoline has been developed since January 7,1913, when the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) was granted its first patent for what is known as the Burton Cracking Process. In 1923 there were some 2000 cracking “units” in operation, of which about 1600 were Burton Process, and the remaining 400 scattered among other cracking processes of more recent origin. During 1923 the 14 million cars and trucks used I about 6,800,000,000 gallons of gasoline. Despite the flood of crude oil, during 1923, there were but 4,950,000,000 gallons of straight run gas- I oline available for these 14 million cars and trucks. I Hence it is obvious that without the cracking process now so generally in use, gasoline prices a would have been substantially higher than they were and one-fourth of these vehicles could not have been operated. This clear, simple statement of facts, verified and I set forth in a non-partisan manner in a Aeen I review of the situation by Charles E. Bowles in the Oil and Gas Journal, is more convincing than a dozen arguments in proving the immense ser- I vice which the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has rendered the automobilist, by developing the Burton Cracking Process, and by inventing stills and other refining machinery to a point where there is practically no crude which cannot be treated and made to yield substantial quantities of good gasoline. If the Oil and Gas Journal is correct in its figures, and we believe that they are conservative, the average saving per car was $35.72 for 1923 —a saving essentially due to the progressive policy of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). Standard Oil Company (Indiana) General Office: Standard Oil Building 910 So. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 3572

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