Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1925 — Page 1

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■catholic high I basketeers are I WELCOMED HOME ■Hundreds Turn Out to Greet I Team Which Was Sen- [ sation In Tourney { PARADE IS HELD I Band And School Children I Lead Parade To And ■ From Station Decatur ('• allio 1 i c school's fighting basketballl players, together with their ! manager, Lather Otto peters,! were given a rousing? reception' this afternoon when they arrived home iioin ('.hicago, where] they gained nation-wide recog-i r.ilion in the national Catholic] iiiierscholastic tournament at I l.ovola ( Diversity. Coach France Center was not with tbc team, he having sone to Gary to visit his parents. Tlumlretls of loyal fans, many of them having watched the wearers of th? green and white fight their way through the tournament to the semifinals. were at the Erie station to greet the team as it alighted from th* 1 train. The .Moose Band was hurriedly called together, after a telegram was received this morning, stating that the team woir’.d arrive at 3:17 o’clock this afternoon. About 3 o’clock a parade formed up town and marched to the Erie station. The band and children from the Catholic schools, headed by John 11. Btemernamp, led the parade to the station. In the parade were many automobiles decorated in the green and sold colors of the Catholic high school. The city fire truck was in the parade, also. Old Glory waved a greeting to the returning heroes as they came down Second street, the merehaMS having put the flags out in front of their places of business. A mighty cheer broke loose as the train came into sight and the players were grasped by their admirers as they alighted from the train. The members of the squad who made the trip to the tournament were: Captain Robert Voglewede, Earl Christen, Carl Gass. Hugh Holthouse, Arthur Wemhoff. Bernard Meyers. George Laurent. Arthur Voglewede and Frederick Schulte. Mhisrles at the various factories In the city and at the city light and Powvr plant were tied down at. about (Continued On Page Five) MRS. PASSWATER DIED YESTERDAY Ag « d vV ady Died At Home Ot Her Daughter, Mrs. Rosa McGonagle Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Passwater, je 79. well known resident of Decanr and the vicinity of Willshire. Ohio ~ at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rosa McGonagle. n Oak street t -:10 o’clock Monday afternoon. artA ' dUe tO hardenil >g of the ies, Mrs. Pass water having been “* for more than a year. Wiir S ’ Passwater W£ »s a daughter of WHltam and Elizabeth Major. and was born at Willshire, Ohio. April 28. m'rri2 n i Deeeinber 31 ’ IS63 > she was Wat ‘ \- tO Robert Passwater. Mr PastheaBteLtbirt 8 t e L tbirty ‘ tWO yearS ag °’ F ° r has rt / years ’ Mrs. Passwater d in thiß city her Meth' She WaS a m,ember of the sS church in Willp 6 BiX children born to Mr. and M? 8 W M e i 0n o ' IcGona ßle, of this city; Passu. PaßSWater > of Decatur; O. J. Xx ’ ° r •»» A. F. PaXa'’- C ' r ' d ' ey K “"“ «">■ three sist ad three brothers and her m a of whom preceded survive death Ei «ht grandchildren uTaX! “ ervices w '» be held from r.o.“S V 1 at 1 “ d at 2 , E church in Willshire. Rev Wiir ednesda y afternoon the Rev v George, asaisted by the of this city, Willshire ’ Purial wUI ’>e made at

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(heck Artist Wanted At Berne And Elsewhere When pen Harter, arrested at Rott WaSne Ittr.t Wednesday, as a fugi five from justice, in connection with the passing of a large numt>er of fiaudulept checks, is released from the penal farm he will find an officer awaiting hint on a ne w charge He possibly pt guilty of having passed cheeks in many towns, and investigations are under way lie was sentenced at Wabash Friday to serve six months at the penal farm for obtaining money under false pretence Officers think he escaped too lightly as he had confessed passing bad checks in at least si* towns His game, was to buy a tire with a had check and get a difference in cash. Besides h<- would n-ell the tires He is wanted for isuing a bad check at Berne for $27 REV. ALLSTON HERE TONIGHT Bluffton Pastor Comes For Series Os Sermons At Presbyterian Church A series of pre-Easter services began March 22. Good audiences were present at each Service during the day. Rev. T. R. Allston, of Bluffton had planned to arrive and to preaeh last night, but was detained on account of illness. In his absence Rev. Covert, the Pastor, deliverd a sermon on “The Unpaid Vow”. Rev. Allston will arrive this afternoon and win I deliver the first of the Series of PreEaster addresses this evening. His topics tonight will be ’The Marks of A Christen". Rev. Allston comes to Decatur highly recommended.not only by his own congregation but by the people of Bluffton. He preaches to large congregations each Sunday and > his church has taken on new life since his coming two years ago. Many Decatnr peophv have heard—Rev- ,MF ston on various occasions and pronounce him a splendid speaker. The music is an attractive feature of these services. Tonight Rev. Ro--1 land Badger, a seminary mate of Rev. Allston and R%v. Covert, will he at ' the organ. Rev. Badger, before entering the Ministry, was assistant ' Professor of Piano and Organ at ’ Jamestown College. Jamestown N. T>. He is an accomplished musician in every way. He will play a prelude this evening. Dr. Fred Patterson, well known musician of this city, will have charge , of the song service each evening*. He will be assisted by a large choir. The services each evening begin at 7:30 o’clock. No prayer meetings are being held in the morning or afternoon. Instead ’ at the close of each evening service a short prayer service is held in the parlors of the church These are being well attended. The public is cordially invited to all of these services. - o Mexican Loses Foot In Effort To Hop Train . Joe Ravis, 26. the Mexican who was seriously injured yesterday after- > noon when he was dragged beneath an eastboimd Erie freight train as he attempted to hop one of the cars near the Erie station, was reported • to be resting well at the hospital i this afternoon. It was necessary to amputate Mr. Ravis’ left foot yester- • day evening. The flesh on the left leg was badly cut and mangled, also, and there was a deep cut on his i head, but physicians believe he wßll recover. . _____o . Mrs. Dennistoun Gets Award Os 5,000 Pounds London, March 24. — Mrs. Dorothy ' Dennistoun today was awarded five thousand pounds sterling in her suit I for six thousand dollars against Lieut. ’ Col. lan Dennistoun, her former husband. The award is expected to end the • case which has been one of the • reigning scandals of England for I weeks. I Mrs. Dennistoun sued her former • husband, alleging that the money was advanced to him by her from funds i she received privately and that a was I used for his personal expenses. . The case was submitted this morn- > ing and the jury soon returned with • answers to a series of ten questions . propounded by the judge. The award followed the answers to the questions.

TO BUILD AN ADDITION TO LIGHT PLANT Council To Receive Bids For Addition To House New Boilers Soon TO BE READY MAY 10 Addition To Be Constructed Os Brick, Steel And Concrete Buis for the election of an addition at the. city light and power' plant, to house the two new 400' horsepower boilers which will be in-1 ! stalled next month, will be received ■ by the city council on April 7. Legal notice to bidders is published in tonight’s Daily Democrat. The’ proposed addition will he about 30 by 44 feet by 32 feet high. It will be j erected near the center of the build-' ing. part of the old building being torn out. The roof on the present building is not high enough to warrant the placing of the boilers in the building. Architect C. N. Christen h as pre ' pared plans and specifications tor; the proposed addition, which is to be ’ built for brick, steel and concrete ‘ It should be ready for occupancy by May 10, city officials stated. , The new Kingsford Webster boil I ers will be shipped from the factory I about April 10 and it is hoped that the addition will be far enough along to place the boilers when they arrive ! Improvements at the city plant have been made within the last three years, making it one of the most modern and best equipped municipal plants ip this part of the state. All the improvements are being paid for out of the earnings of the plant. * —— —____—. | Charged With Intoxication Wash Burrel was arrester by Chief of Police Joel Reynolds on a charge of public intoxication about i;3O o’clock this afternoon. He was locked in the county jail. WAS IN STORM SWEPT SECTION Alex Sutton Narrowly Es-i capes In Tornado At Princeton, Indiana Alex Sutton, son of Judge and Mrs. Jesse C. Sutton, of this city, narrowly escaped the disastrous tornado which visited the southern part of Indiana, Illinois and Missouri late last Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Sutton was in Princeton, Indiana, at the time of the 1 storm and was only about two or three blocks from where the tornado passed through the city. Mr. Sutton is a traveling salesman for a large aluminum company with j offices in Indianapolis. He, together with another representative of the ' company, had started to drive to I Evdnsville and Louisville in Mr. Sut- i ton’s ear. As they neared Princeton. I a violent storm came up. When they reached Princeton it was raining in 1 torrents and the wind was blowing a ' heavy gale. They parked their car' on the leeward side of the court house in Princeton and decided to sit in the car until the storm subsided. Soon, 1 however, they saw the top torn from an automobile a short distance down the street and carried across the street by the wind and their own car began to be blown about by the wind. They decided to get out of the car, which they did, and they took shelter in a store across the street. After the storm had passed, the two men started on their trip, but had gone 1 only a block when they found a tree across the street. A block farther they found a porch torn off a house and deposited in the street and from there on was a mass of debris. Mr. Sutton and his companion stopped and assisted in the rescue work for an hour or two, until the work became well organized and was progressing smoothly, before they resumed their trip. Mr. Sutton, in a letter to his parents, described the terrible sight he saw in the devastat-' ed area. j

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 21, 1925

HEADS ROTARIANS Arthur R. Hclthouse I Arthur It. Holthoune. secretary and . business manager of the Daily Demo , crat, was elected president of the De- • atur Rotary (Tub at the annual meet- ! ing ot the board of directors of the I club last night. Mr. Holthouse has , been an active member of the club for several years and was elected a member of the board of directors last , | week. A. R.HOLTHOUSE HEADS ROTARIANS Officers Os Club Elected At Meeting Os Directors Last Night | At thur R. Ilolthouse, secretary-treas-urer of the Decatur Democrat company, was elected president of the I I’ecatur Rotary club at a meeting of the newly elected directors held at five o’clock last evening at the office of Henry B. Heller. Other officers elected iare, R. J. Harting, vice-president; James L. Kocher, treasurer; Herman J. Yager, secretary, re-elected, and Eno Lanki aneau, sergeant-at-arms. The officers | comprise the board of directors, and Henry R. Heller, who retires as president of the club, by virtue of the office remains an exoffico member of the board. The new officers will assume their duties at the first meeting in April. Their election as directors of the Rotary club took place at the last meeting of the club find, according to the by-laws of International Rotary, the officers iare to bo chosen from the i board of directors: The Decatur Rotary club was organized in this city

,in 1916. It now has a membership of 1 44 men and about every business I classification in the city is representi ed in the club. The retiring officers of the club, besides Mr. Heller, are: Dore B. Erwin, vice-president; Avon Burk, treasurer; E. Walter Johnson, sergeant at-arms, and Herman J, Yager, who was reelected as secretary. 0 Girl Born To Mr. And Mrs. Charles Keller Mary Katherine is the name given an S and one- quarter pound girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keller of High street, at the Adams County Memorial hospital at 11:30 o’clock this morning. This is the first child. Mother and babe are getting along nicely. Mrs Keller, before her marriage, was Miss Helen Blee, a daughter of Mr and Mrs. William Blee, of this city. LOWLY OYSTER WILL BE LOWLY NO MORE Chicago. Mar. 24 —(United Press) —The lowly and much abused oyster now has a defender. It is the best possible food for overplump people who wish to reduce, Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings. Illinois director of public health, declares in a public bulletin. Because oysters have all the chemical food value of milk without its fattening constituents, they are especially suitable as a diet for those who have a “tendency toward obesity.” Dr. Rawlings’ bulletin points out. He says they also have acer- j tain value as a preveatative of disease. 7 Weather Unsettled with showers tonight iu east and sonth portions: somewhat cooler tonight. Wednesday generally fair.

YEGGMEN BLOW POSTOFFICE SAFE AT VALPARAISO [Gel K 10,000 In Stump* \nd War St a rip* La*l Nii’ht MAKE GOOli GET-AW \V Sale Blown Between Midnight And V A. M., But Noise Not Heard Valparaiso, Ind., Mir 21 Hi.,4 Press.) Yegzmi n bh w afv ■> the postoffice here some time >»i»«<h midnight and Ca. n. today at ' ■ ed with stamps and war stamps valued at Iln.two. Police of Chicuto and uih<r . <« have been asked <o keep wat.fi lor I the robbers. Some of the too s used.by thi i rr* I were found in th- office of the >• | master. The robbers gained entrance In th postoffice by arm.shlng a window > the rear of the bullumg With a* electric drill. th»y bored open thouter door of tie safe. A charge of explosive blew <>p. t, the inner door of the safe. The ye«; men looted it of stamps and war av ing stamps and tied. The postmastf r was awaiting the arrival of inspectors to determine the exact amount 01 the loot. An un usually large si pply of stamps for the size of the postoffice was carried to meet th demands as mall ord er houses. The robbery was not discover, il nn 111 clerks arrivei at the postoffi. e (ori work this morning. No one heard, the explosion or saw the robbers ent er or leave the building. The safe was located in a small' room adjoining the postmaster'private i.fftA e. High wimlewn at lafront of the budding permitted them to work without danger of do’c-i tlon by persons on the streets. Every indication was that the ml. bery was done by experts. Th« ex plosive was carefully placed and in tie damage was done by the blast • aside from partially wrecking thsafe. • RED CROSS FUND NEAR SIODMARK Twenty-five Dollars Added To Fund For Relief Os

Storm Victims The local Fed Cross relief fund for the storm sufferers has not reachca SIOO.OO yet, the total being $85.26. Twenty-five dollars was added to the fund yesterday. Miss Anna Winnes, secretary pf the Adams County lied Cross chapter, gathered the contributions from the! boxes at the banks, the Winnes shoe store and tho Daily Democrat office at noon today and the following donations were received: Previous tot: 1 $60.55 Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick 5.00 M - Kirsch 500 A Friend 10l) { Mr. and Mrs. W. |<l Smith 5.00 A Sympathizer *5 A Erif ‘ n ‘l 5.00 Change in boxes 3,<rt Total 185.26 Those who wish to contribute to the fund shculd do so at once. An amount of clothing and bed clothes has >een received at the city hall and will be sent to the storm sufferers by the local Red Cross. o Regular Lenten Sermon 'At Catholic Church Tonight The reg)-..ar Tuesday evening Leuten sermon will be given at the st Marys Catholic church this evening Rev. otto a. Peters, assistant pastor of the church, who has been in Chioago with the Catholic high BC bno| basketball team, will arrive home this afternoon and will deliver the third of his series of sermons I

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