Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1925 — Page 5

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H a RUMt ?''■ H T Merrvman spent I rl9 J ’ d T Fort Wayne visiting with 9 (rie,dH v"‘l ’nonnan .of Huntington. 9 Jmlss Marie Gass, of this city, at- ■ ' < the basketball game at Indi- ■ ilsUst night and will spent the KB . „,i with relatives there. 9 ’± W.vne Gaunt, of east of the 9 it J spent' the day here shopping. ■ 0 porter returned this morning I tr m a business trip to Chicago. 9 '"Jillian. Tague, of near Monroe, 9 a business visitor here tins 9 "T'johil Clark motored to Indian--9 i W' stcr,lay ! ‘" d atte,>ded ,hC 9 tmtur-liulianapolis basketball game. 9Hi »H* 1 " 1 "*'' kend ,herC MH frietilsH Alfred Beavers. Carol Cole. Earl 9 IW and Robert Helm were among H tliosr who motored to Berne last ■H night to see the basketball game. I Mi s Hazel Maddox, of Fort Wayne, ■ wsj a S ues * of Mr and MrS ' C ' E B licit lure yesterday. Mr. ami Mrs. B jicii and gm st mo'., red to Berne last B night and attsmted the evangelistic B meetings there. ■ John Teeple, student at, Purdue. B paiversity at Lafayette, is spending B the week-end with his mother. Mrs. ■ Miunio Teeple. of North Third street, fi Miss Minnie Brandyberry returnB fj w Eort Wayne this morning after B visiting friends here. ■ Robert Helm, of Purdue University ■ at Lafayette is spending the week- ■ end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ■ Harry Helm. ■ Miss Hazel Maddox, of Fort. Wayne, ■ who has been u guest of Mrs. C. E. ■ Hell was accompanied home by Mrs. ■ Hell this morning. ■ Guy Kt lib r and Cassel Harvey, of i B Huntington visited friends here last B night. ■ Miss Helen Meyer is spending the B seek end with friends at Marion ■ Dougla. Haney and Homer Lower B made a business trip to St. Louis to B look over an oil proposition. ■ Mrs. Jessie Deapi will leave tiiB Borrow for a several weeks visit B with her sun. Burt Townsend in C'lii- ■ ago. H The Indiana Democratic Editorial ■ laaoeiation will hold their annual ■ Bering at the Claypool hotel in IndiB juapolis next Thursday and Friday* ■ W. W. Hendricks of Monroe was i ■ htwuess visitor today. I Mr and Mrs. E. W. Johnson and i I Mr. and Mi s. C. E Hocker motored I ■ to Berne last night and attended the I evangelistic meetings at the MennoI lite church. I Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Gaunt and children. Mrs. J. A. Swartz and Mrs. T. D. Kern and daughter. Margaret, were the guests of relatives at Fort k’ayne today. Mr. and Mrs- E. Anspaugh and children. and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gar“rd heard Dr. Torrey preach at the MennoniU church at Berne last evening. Miss Vera Bright spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne visiting with ! friends. i, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Miller, of Fort w’ayne, are spending the week-end ■ ‘ lcrc with relatives. Miss Esther Mclntosh, is the guest i • '^ lrit ' ni|ii at Fort Wayne this after-j

\£§> «mvaa» 875 n rr>j iiwmin OUT of 1,000 working men and women who had kept Bank Ac- ? counts for two years and over, 875 i H were making more money than , when they opened their accounts. I t Out of 1.000 workers who had no | bank accounts, only 11.‘* made more money at the end of two years. II 1 I M ’ jjp 1 Bqiik. j qJwUrt and Surplus 3120,000.00 < k&,\ r ne) ' t* F’Kangpo,. > i.

noon. Miss Margaret Moran, of Fort Wayne, Is spending the week end with her mother, Mrs. J. C. Moran, of Marshall street. Ml»« Beatrice Oettinger was a Fort Wayne visitor this afternoon. Miss Irlene Franz, of the Adams County Memorial Hospital, visited friends at Fort Wayne this afternoon. Robert Meyers, who is a student at Indiana Dental College, at Indianapolis, is spending the week-end with his mother, Mrs. Clara Meyers. Ben Teeple, of east of the city, was a business visitor here this morning. August Selking. of west of the city, was a business visitor here this morning. Fred Ostermeyer. of west of the city, looked after business interests here this afternoon. Mrs. J. H. Uhrick and children, of Fort. Wayne, are spending the week end in this city with relatives. Miss Lucile Engle, student at Miami university, is spending ahe week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Engle Miss Martha Ward, of Sherwood, Ohio, a student at Miami, is also a guest at tli,e Engle home. CLUB CALENDAR - ~ Saturday Sauer Kraut supper — Zion Ro formed church, 5 to 7 p. nt. , Christian Ladies 'Aid Society. Bake Sale,ldecht’e Meat Market, 9 a. m. Monday Pythian Needle Club —At home after lodgeResearch Club — Mrs. Daniel Sprang. 6:30 p. m. Tri Kappa Call Meeting — Mrs. Cecil Moser. Tuesday G. M.. G. of Reformed Cburth— Frances ami Goldia Limenstall. 6 p in Delta Theta Tau —Miss Genevieve Gerling. 7:30 p. m. Bridge Club - Mrs. Minnie Holthouse. ~ 1 C. L of C.—K. of C. Hall, 8 p m. Psi lota Xi—Miss Mildred Butler i 7:30 p. m. W. M. S. of Reformed Churchchurch social room, 2 p. m. Wednesday Auction Bridge Club —Miss Tootz Keller. 7:30 p. m. Historical Club —Mrs. Sam Hite. Shakespeare Club —Mrs. Fred Patterson. Thursday Bridge Club—Miss Maflge Hite, 8 p. m. » The Pythian Needle Chib will meet Mpnday evening after lodge at. the home. All members are urged to attend. The hotesses will be Mesdatnes Rachel Burdg, Jessie Burdg, Jennie Whitright and Pauline Butler The Auction Bridge Club will meet | with Miss Tootz Keller Wednesday | evening at 7:30 o'clock.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925.

The Woman's Missionary Society of ths Evangelical Church will have charge of the program at the Sunday evening service. Miss Marion Lyon I Lee, a native of China, will deliver an Interesting lecture. The public Is cordially Invited to hear Miss Lee. A silver offering will be taken. The Ladies' Aid society of the Evangelical church will serve a chicken supper iu the church dining room Saturday, February 7, from five to seven o'clock. The liberal patron age of the public is solicited. A miscellaneous showef was given Friday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller at the Sam Krill home, north qf the city. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were the recipients of many beautiful gifts. The guests includ sd Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Sheets, Mr. uid Mrs. Merle Sheets, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fuhrman and children, the Misses Lois and Esther Fuhrman. Bertha and Zelma Fuhrman, Helen Rayer, Margaret Kidwell, Messrs. Moris and Norvel Fuhrman. Franklin Singleton, Chauncey {rill and Krill. A number of friends gathered at he home of Mr. and Mrs. George {oos, of Bobo, recently to remind Mr. Koos of his seventieth birthday nniversary. A very pleasant evenng was enjoyed. Each brought well filled baskets and a fine supper was <erved. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Koos, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Koos and son, Donald ind daughters. Helen and Genevieve, Ir. and Mrs. Philip Rash and daugh ers. Leah Ruth and Marie Ethelyn, ’f Decatur; Mr. Frank Koos, of Fort Wayne; Mr. Albert Shell, Mrs. Rebec’.a Jackson and daughter, Ardola. Miss Mario Koos and Mr. and Mrs. Sdward Koos and daughter, Mary 'Torence. of near Bobo. " " " O'"""”' ■ ' I ‘Pep” Musical Concert On Thursday, February 19 Music lovers of Decatur and vicinty are looking forward with interest to the appearance of the Gibson Plectrum Symphony Orchestra, one >f the best musical organizations out >f Fort Wayne, which will give a con :ert here, one night only, on Thurs lay. February 19. at S o'clock at the ilgh school auditorium. The company s sometimes called the “pep'' orches ' ra. A special feature on the protram will be the appearance of little Wilda and Leah Barr, children of Mr. Barr, leader of the orchestra, who have been successfully appearng of late in readings. The Hawaiian juartet and Barr’s banjo fiends will also be included in the program which will be the best ever present:d in a city of this size. Tickets will be on sale in due time and the admisison price is announced at 25c and 35c. • — o Purdue To Hold A School For Bankers Bloomington, Ind.. Jan. 31—Indiana dom hears of bankers going to ichool possibly because it isn't done, or something like that, but Indiana bankers are feeling few if any tcruplcs about yutom aud will inaugurate a new idea January 29 and 10 at Purdue University by attending what is known as an “Agricultural School for Indiana Bankers." Invitations have been issued to the thousand banks in the state to attend the school, ami the early response indicates tliut the big majority of the money institutions will be repre sented. The program of the school will include lectures and demonstrations on poultry, all divisions of livestock, grains, fruits, potatoes and other branches of agriculture The feature address of the meeting it* to be presented by Burton M. Smith, of North Lake, Wisconsin, Chairman of the Agricultural Commissiou of the American Bankers Association. President Edward C. Elliott, Director G. I. Christie of the Purdue Agricultural Experiment. Station and Z. M. Smith state director of vocational educa tion are other proujinept speakers who will appear on the program The school is the first of fts kind ever held in the United States, and conics in a respouse to requests from the banking institutions of the state for expert advice and information on the agricultural situation in Indiana. Tlic agricultural committee of Ijie liullaiia Bankiurs' ussoeiutiiJb diet with I'urdue officials here sometime ago. and it was at. this time that plans were sketched for the meeting which is to be held Thursday and FridayThe realization that the prosperity of the banks of the ptate generally, aud the country bunks particularly, depends upon Hr- farmer's financial cuudition aud the ability of the banker to know aud yuderstaud the gen <-ral situatiou so as to be of greatest, benefit to bis clients is the primary icjiV" for the .■*t!'eri’ig It tjjo meeting proves the success that is

now Indicated, there li little doubts ] but that it will ba established a« aoi, annual event. | o County Assessors Hold Meeting At Anderson At a meeting of the county asuea«or» of the Wabash district, held at I Anderson last week, the assessors I passed the following recommendations relative to assessing personal 1 property next March: "That all grain be assessed at market value on March 1, less 5 cents I per bushel for marketing: milk cows < 1 at SIOO each down; other cattle at ; Indianapolis market prices less cost 1 of shipping; brood sows at S3O each , down; gilts at market price: fat or stock hogs at market price less cost of shipping; first class horses at S2OO each down; one-year-old colts at SSO down; two-year-old colts at $75 down and three-year-old colts the same as work horses; sheep at sl2 each down 1 chickens at $6 per dozen for mixed ■ breeds and sl2 per dozen for larger breeds; turkeys $5 each; geese at $2 each; ducks at 50 cents; hay and straw at market price March 1. less cost of marketing ; clover and tim otby seed at marketing price March 1 ■ all other property at actual value as of March I’’ Following the adoption of the motion regarding assessments, those present at the meeting voiced their . oqinion that farm land in some in- , stances was assessed too high aud i improvements were assessed too low Adams County is not a member of the Wabash district aud County Assessor William Zimmerman did not attend the meeting. Walter G. Briggs, representative of the state tax board was present at the meeting. A similar meeting will be held at Ft Waym in the near future Sometimet He’s Sure of It There Is no leisure class in Amer lea. but nt times the boss is incline I to tliink there is.—Evenin Sun. Clay in Senate at Ticenty-Nim Henry Clay was in the Unile< : States sennve at twentj nine, coutrur.' to the Uonstiiutiun. — o Expectations Vary > Some expect pearls with llielr !>■ valves. Others are glad enough •’ find the shells well supplied with <iyn tera.—Louisville V>urier-.h>ui ual. X MEMORIAL ASKED ; FOR r WRITER OF STATE SONG I Biil Introduced in the Legislature Asking to Create a Memorial to , Paul Dresser, Author of “On the Banks of the Wabash,” Official State Song of Indiana. ; The bill introduced in the Indiana legislature for the purpose of creating a Memorial along the 1 Wabash River in Western Indiana, > dedicated to Paul Dresser, has the sanction and approval of the Paul Dresser Memorial Committee and 1 prominent Indianians throughout f the country. The Paul Dresser Memorial ComI ■iilttee, created several years ago io devise some fitting Memorial to ' the author of Indiana’* state song, 1 has agreed to raise by voluntary subscriptions one-fourth of the amount necessary to create and develop sueh a Memorial The I Committee is asking that the Legislature provide $150,000.00 to be made available io the Conservation Department when the Committee has deposited in the State Treasury a sum of $50,000.00 for the purpose stated. . The Paul Dresser Memorial Committee has grown to be a national organization with committees in every large city, headed by promi- l . nent publie officials and men of unquestioned leadership. Through this nation-wide organization more i than $35,000.00 .has already been . subscribed and the Committees agree to raise $60,000.00 before asking the Department of Conservation to make use of the amount provided by the Legislature. After many months of study, ths Memorial Committee proposes that a sufficient acreage be acquired along the banks of the Wabash, that thia laud be placed under the Department of Conservation for development and supervision and ; that within the memorial tract the home in which Paul Dresser Nvas born shall be placed with a suitable setting of sycamore trees and from which an excellent view of the Wabash River may be had. It is stated by the Committee and those sponsoring the bill in the legislature, that from 800 to 1,000 pcree of inexpensive lend can be obtained at a location along the National Old Trails where many thou sin da of tourists will daily pass by or through the proposed Memorial- Such a location would afford camping facilities with boating and ftshing, from which revenue could be collected to make th* Memorial self-sustaining. Keen Inter'est in the undertaking is being manifested by practically all the Women's Clubs in the state, Kiwanis, Rotary, Exchange and Lions Clubs. Chambers of Commerce, Automobile Clubs and other organizations interested in the conservation of Indiana's resources and in rerpetuatmg beauty ’ spits throughout the state, *|

EIGHT DIE IN • CHICAGO FIRE THIS MORNING (Continued from Page One) on~th7‘~isni Lieut. Horace McLean, chief of the 16th battalion, yelled for them to wait. Ladders were run up and firemen fought their way through fire and smoke and carried the three to safety. Mrs. Isabelle Cunningham saved her mother-in-law and nine year old daughter. The mother iu law, a paralytic, was"helpless. Mrs. Cunningham placed the aged woman iu her wheel chair took the terrified child under one arm and made her way hrough the dense smoke of their tecond floor apartment to the stairway. She wheeled the chair down he stairway to the front door where flretnen yanked all three to safety. A dozen others were carried to safety by firemen and police. The fire, started in the basement from an overheated furnace, firemen believe. While the building was of brick, the flames spread rapidly and jut off the escape of many of the enan'l3 before the alarm could be I dven Scores their way to' tlie in night attire and were’ .aken in by the hotel and neighboring apartment dwellers. Shortly after noon firemeu rocovsred the body of a woman identified is the mother of the 16 jear old girl I victim. o — RADIO FUND IS PAST SSOO MARK (Continued from Page One) I friend 40 'atues N. Fristoe 1.00 Ihucks Shoemaker 1.00 VI. E- Hower I.oo' Ulmer Chase 50 k friend 1.00 I. S. Parrish 50 4. Moyer 1.00 '’red Blosser .50 3. J. Rice. 1.00

To Lecture Here ||||p -a WOS am. W. E. TIBBITTS ‘The Destiny of Men and of Nations” is the subject of a. free Bible lecture to be given by Mr. W. lible lecture to be given by Mr- W. E. Tibbitts. of Fori Wayne, in the Adams theatre on Sunday, Jan. 31st at 10:00 a. in- The public is urged to hear this lecture. F&S

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