Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1924 — Page 5

I1 Local Briefs |

■KB j,.,, Khinger went to Fort Wayne (his afternoon to bring his mother, Bb! Mis Catherine Ehingir, home. Mrs. Bn' i'luiiger has been receiving tirndh-al Bp neatment at the St. Joseph Hospital (~i the past several week*, ami is | giightly improved. Miss Rowena Shoaf, of Detroit, Ml, j llK .>«. arrived yesterday to Spend MH ;.,.veral 'lays witli (’. J. Lutz ami Mr W gad Mrs. Fred Smith. Olio Marshall, of Ft. Wayne, s p, m Sunday at ills parental home here. 181 Free Frisinger. of Akron, Ohio, is |M spending the holidays with his M mother. Mrs. Jane Frisinger. Herman Myers visited friends at Bluffton last evening. IBi Miss Rowena Miller returned sun 181 day at Purdue University, to spend |B| in, Christmas vacation with her par 181 i-nls- Mr. and Mrs ,E. F. Miller, east BK of the city. She was accompanied 181 home by Miss Lucy Crum of I'rank 181 fort, ami Lloyd Cochran, of Rossville. ■B Kenneth Shafer, of Chicago, will |B| arrive tomorrow to spend Christmas with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John |B Shafer. of north of the city. Mr. IB Shafer is a student at the McCormick B| Seminary. |BI The Misses Faye Stulls and na |B Hornada spent the day in Ft. Wayne j with friends. M Mrs. Louis Gardy returned to Xew B| York City this morning aft. ia ■■ |B al days visit with her biotln r-m 1.." Bf and sister, Mr. and Mrs. II 11. Lun H minian. B Felix Maier returned from Fort < B. Wayne this morning after spemlim; B the week end with his parents. B Deane Dorwin arrived home this t B morning from Franklin College, t Bi where he is a student. B Mrs. Er W. Kampe spent the day in B Fort Wayne with relatives. i ■ Misses Genevieve Kitson. Helen i ( Bk Meyers and Messrs. Russell Byers , K and Gregg Brandyberry motored to Be Fort Wayne lafst evening. B Miss Jirene Gregory, of Garrett, is £ B' spending the Christmas holiday- with , B her mother. Mrs. Lizzie Gregory, of , ■ Madisgu street. , B Mrs. Paul Briede and son. Boh. of ( B Portland, are the guests of Mrs. H ] B Barling and family. B'; Dr. and Mrs. Stewart Niblick and . ■ children, of Indiana Harbor, will ar , B| rive tomorrow to spend Christmas , E with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Niblick. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Perry Gandy and daughK ter. of Cherubusco. will also arr ve B| Tuesday to spend several days with ( K the Niblicks. Dawn Turner, of Fort W iyne, I visited friends here yesterday after-, E uo °n. | Mrs. Minnie Daniels will have as | lier guests over the Christmas holiI days. Miss Margaret Daniels, of Ft. | Wayne,* Robert Daniels, of Indiana | University at Bloomington. Harold E Daniels, of Indianapolis and Paul I Daniels, of Fort Wayne. | Miss Mary Moses, of Detroit, will | arrive tomorrow to spend Christmas I with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moses. I Mrs. E. A. Goldncr. of Preble, was I a shopper hero this afternoon. I Mrs. Francis Schmitt and Miss I Grace Coffee visited friends at Imt I Wayne this morning. I Mrs. I. W. Macy and daughter. | Martha, arrived from South Bend this | afternoon for a week’s visit with I relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alwein and Children of Shelby. Ohio, arrived tins [ morning for a week's visit witli relaI fives. 1 Millard Cowan who was struck by an automobile while crossing | Hu street at Third and Adams a few days ago is still confined to his b< d but is believed is getting along as well as can be expected. Mrs. W. C. Briggs spent the alternoon in Fort Wayne with relatives She was accompained by her brothel. Grover Hoffman, who returned to his home at Fort Wayne .after visiting relatives here. Mrs. J. L. Kocher and daughter. Helen and Katharine, visited friend nt Fort Wayne today. Mrs. Fred Smith and Miss Rowena Shoaff visited friends nt Fort Waym this afternoon afternoon. 1 eroy Packard of Wabash motor cd over-last evening and visited Ini' with friends. Miss Rowena Shoaf, nurse al the Ford' hospital, Detroit arrived ift Hi" city Saturday ami will spend t brrntinjs here with relatives and friends. Francis Uostello is one ot Hie tra clerks assisting al Hu- Dmai'H postoffice during the Christina:, rush. The county comniisioners will be in session tomorrow and a "aid H> contract for the furnishing books and printing to the county. Several patients al Hie Ada"’ County Memorial hospital were lea* ing today in order to be home b Christmas. ?

CLUB CALENDAR Monday Delta Theta Tau Christmas party —Miss Naomi Durkin, 6:30 p. m. Phoebe Bible Class dt Reformed Church—Mrs. Tillman Gerber, 7:30. Research Club—Mrs. C. E. Bell. Psi lota Xi Christmas party—Mrs. J. H. Burroughs, 8 p. m. Tuesday Tri Kappa Christmas Party—Miss Veronica Anker. Moose Leglonaires Christmas party —Mrs. Nick Brown. Antioch Missionary Society—Mrs. Homer Ginter. Loyal Workers Class ot E. V. Church—Mrs. Inez Weber, 6:30. Silent Workers Class of United Brethren Church—Mrs. Ben Pillars. Baptist Woman's Society—Mrs. S. E. Shamp. Ever Ready Class of M. E. Church —Mrs. Ed Ahr. Friday Night Club—Mrs. Ruby Durkin. So Cha Rea—Miss Cecile Mllier, 7:30 p. ttn. Royal Neighbors — Ben Hur Hall. 7:30 p. m. The annual Christmas party and exchange of the Delta Theta Tau Sorority will be held at the home of Miss Naomi Durkin this evening at 6:30 o'clock. All members are urged to attend. The office girls of the Cloverleaf Creamery held their annual Christmas party at the home of Miss Margaret Mylott, on South Fit'll street last evening. At six-thirty an elabroate three-course dinner was served. Silver candle holders with red tapers and a basket of cut roses were used as the table decorations. The place cards and nut cups were of a Christmas nature. After the dinner the exchange of gifts was held. W. A. Klepper and Norbert Holthouse, manager and assistant man ager. respectively, were honored guests. Other guests included the Misses Ethel Erwin. Catherine Omlor, Marcella Lengerich, Gertrude Thieme, Margaret Mylott and Mesdames. A .F. Stalter and Clyde Butler. | Evangeline and Pauline Steele, daughters of J. H. Steele of Pleasant Mills, who have been attending school at North Manchester and are now at home for the holidays, were very pleasantly surprised at their home. Saturday evening, by their school mates and friends of that neighborhood. .The evening was spent playing games and music. At the close of the fun, apples, ice I cream and cake', were served by Mrs. Steele. Among those present were I Miss Burl Merriman of Muncie, Richard Davis of Purdue university, and ■ Miss Madge Stuckey of near Evansville, who rendered some very charm- . ing music on the piano. Miss Stuckey

> .. 1 r >S-% <owuw | I • the most popular club 'i|-iu club brings its members the things they most desire. H the benefits of membership were more widely known, this would l>e the > ('■'( popular club i’l Adams county. , ( < cai join and the dues draw i .. ~<. ■ >• r <'f ;r to our S'.hematic i- gs Chi vl : h meets in our L h Come in and join this pay- ; day. Bcpik Capital and Surplus ■}l2o,oot). Ub Indiana

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Is music inHtructor~at*the’Pleasant - Mills high school. I HIGHT HAS MIND : OF YOUNG CHILD Physician Testifies That Former Minister Is A High Type Moron ■ ' (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Mt. Vernon, 111., Dec, 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Lawrence M. Hight, former Methodist pastor, who is on trial with Mrs. Elsie Sweetin, for the murder of Wilford Sweetin. has the mind of a ten yea.- old boy according to the testimony of Dr. C. S. Anderson, superintendent of the state insane asylum. “He is the high moron type," An- ( derson testified. He added that Hight was mentally unable to tell right from wrong so far as his own actions were concerned. Mt. Vernon, 111., Dee. 22—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The final steps in the defense case to prove that ! Lawrence M. Hight.is suffering from ■ mental aberration will ba laid, to-j day. Friends and relatives will testify as to the former pastor’s mental eccentricities in an attempt to save him from the gallows for the slaying of Wilford Sweetin. The defense for his former sweetheart and co-defend-ant, Mrs. Elsie Sweetin, practically has been completed. By Christmas day it is expected | that Hight and Mrs. Sweetin will know their fate. Attorneys expect i to complete the testimony today and ■he arguments will start some time Tuesday. According to present plans tlnformer pastor—who in the palmy, days of preaching al Ina was known 'as a masterful orator—will deliver, part of the plea to the jury. AIR MAIL FLYER | DIESIN CRASH Charles Gilbert Loses Life Last Night When Plane | Falls Kanosville, Hi. Dec. 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat I —Grim death took up Ike pursuit of Charles Gilbert, air mail flyer as he left Chicago last night and whirled through Hie fulling snow witli thousands of letters of Christmas cheer for the west. A mile and a half from here death won the race and Gilbert crashed to ’ a corn field where his lifeless body was picked up today after an allT M—— 1 I— ■ ——*■ 3 o— — 9 e l r FOR SALE :i - : s 1 The old U. B. Church buildt. i. ing located on Madison street. , ~ Building is constructed of good lumber and measures : '• j 32x51 feet If interested call 1 i’ | or see i- | x Roy Miimma. il at Decatur Lumber Co. C. E. Baughman, at Baughman 5c & 10c Store i- | I £ ——B^*^ ~

night search. Gilbert’s crushed form was found several hundred yards from his demolished airplane. Indications are that Gilbert leaped from his machine a short distance from the ground. Enginy trouble caused the crash, it was believed. Gilbert, a former army aviator and only in the air mail service several months, left Chicago at 7:10 p. m. last night for Omaha. A few minutes later R. L. Wagner, another pilot started with his batch ot mail I for the west. f * Both machines were driving' through a light snow storm and in the teeth of a polar wind with the temperature far below zero. As Wagner passed over Kanesvillel he glanced down and saw the twink ling light of Gilbert’s machine. Wagoner thought that Gilbert had decided to get down to a lower altitude and whirled on his way to lowa City. Unknown to Wagoner he was witnessing the latest tragedy of the air mail service. — O" — Tractors Pulling Street Cars In Springfield, 111. j St. Louis, Dec. 22 —Tractors are holing used to drag street cars about Hie | city in Springfield. 111., according to | reports reaching here. The entire electric’ system there is >—■ ——.. Ashbaucher’s FURNACES LIGHTNING RODS SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING PHONE 765 Os 739 |

— ~ "ij ? LONG STOCKINGS MAKE SHORT BANK ROLLS I I>ul a BcauU,ul I 1 —SQUARE DEAL I DIAMOND V$X * .... PRICE TAGS ! In “her” stroking Christmas ||//<L , | morning—she won't mind the | WM FILL THEM ,1 j “stone bruise.’ B ' 1 I Hard Earned Christmas Doi- WITH HAPPINESS I tars deserve thoughtful - f jft. 1 .pending—every diamond in if X-■ this store carries an eye H/Ky' / JjaLjl opener” price tag. || ... $25 1 ‘ SSOO Comparison, Makes the I • } ,il B ■ Proof of Saving EASY! }l._ r fl \\V jf’Z I yf The Christmas Gift of a Good Watch JgEi ■ Is a Tool Chest for a Better Job! i > «5~-y4>rX'’" <• 7 ~ , VC v .':rx'’t» ■ ffs\ GREEN AND ELGIN WATCHES \4ATHEY know its - vear round qualities—and feel sure of miri 'ft /themselves —no guesswork about a nationally known f I'i'fl IAI watch—big selections— , I fej $15.00'” $150.00 “?'" j **■ •**'” '■ - flr fw-'riv..’ WATCHES AjjgjX She’s Wishing Now for ivory! ‘’“Pitt and workman- I WHITE IVORY TOILET SETS ship omhined — this ! A GIFT for her own personal use hr “"‘' " cw n ’ o,ld | is sometimes more appropriate Im’S I 1 I® c* 1r nn * I than a gift for all the family—the tp'O.uv ■ season's newest ideas at . I $15.00 1O 575.00 APRACTICAL GIFT AND BEAUTIFUL I BAR PINS I I 4 111111 "* 11 '■ "' " Give her a personal nilt M > y shc wi " n,ways cnJoy! INt (iMPARABLE! I - That’s the only word to describe these M lustrous and beautiful a gdt (hat’s intended for everyday use & I LA TAUSCA PEARLS J . . . , . . —hundreds o? newest ideas in White 9 Perfect in color and graduation—twenty. ■ ’ ••wy $5 te sso ww I Pl/MPHREY JEWELRY STORE I ; Open Evenings g Brunswick Phonographs and Records ja S . _■-- ———if I bill I L win- — -nil

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1921.

out aud the city still in practically I isolated. The Illinois traction system early today had been unable to get I trains through to the Illinois capital.

New Mufflers and Gloves Wn for his old O’coat —or ji a new O’coat for his old <6 \W \ Muffler and Gloves. c /E, .V I '/ should have both but if you are only * buying him) one gift choose either a Muffler an( l (>hives or an Overcoat and leave it to him to jmSrv* supply the other. SI.(M) to $4.00 these Mufflers and Gloves \ h ft F are •• var * C( l sands of the desert and as || I ft u eolorful as the Arabian Nights. Illi j ' In O'coats at S2O Io $35 we are showing so I ’ i many coats that it is difficult to describe them in ' s= 3 I " any other way than saying you’ll have difficulty \ v Laving difficulty ia making a choice. i \ j Shirts—Woolen Sport Coats Leal her Bags—Sweaters I Lounging Robes—Silk and Knit Ties. Teiw/T-Mvfxb Go J BETT£R CLOTHS FOR LESS J MONEY-ALWAYS- • DECATUR • INDIANA •«

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