Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1925 — Page 3

CLUB CALENDER tJ Thursday zlo n Lutheran Ladies’ Aid society— B,hoolhouse. 8:30 **■ nl ' Sern Star-Masonic Hall, 7:30 P (ha Rea—Mrs- Clem Kortenbror, 8 p h. (’lass of U. B. church Hard „ Sodal-Mrs. Ben Hoagland. Udlea’ Aid Society of Christian church— Mrs. Will Engle, all day. Moose Legionaire Masquerade and Pot buck Supper-Moose Home. Baptist Woman’s Society—Mrs. S. E Hite. 2 p. nt. Friday Pocahontas Social Meeting-Red yen Hall, after lodge. Delta Thta Tan Benefit Card Party Home, 8 p. m. Ben Hur Hallowe’en Party-Ben Hur Hall. \y R. C. inspection and initiation of I’. Home. 1:30 p. m. Saturday Ladles'Aid Society of M. E. Church Cafeteria Supper—M. E. Church, sto 7 p. m, Monday Yeoman childrens’ party—Yeomen hall. Research Club—Mrs E. S. Moses. Tuesday Woman’s Club Reformed Church, 6 p. in. Wednesday Historcal Club—Mrs. E. S. Christen Shakespeare Club — Mrs. Helen Blossom. The social program of the Decatur high school was opened last evening when the members of the Senior cass gave their annual dance, at the Masonic hall. The ball room was made very attractive with the Hallowe’en colors and decorations. Lighted pumpkin faces and witches were placed in the windows and shocks of corn stood in the corners. The lights were dimmed with orange and black shades and the ceiling was hidden by branches of autumn leaves. An old-* fashioned rail fence intertwined with autumn leaves enclosed the orchestra Punch was served during the evening The music was furn shed by Miss Mildred Butler, Dee , Fryback. Robert Insley and Othmar Smith, for the dancing which continued until 12 o'clock. Out-of-town . guests from Marion and Bluffton were in attendance. The chaperones were Walter Krick, principal of the high school. Miss Blanche McCrory, M’BS Helen Stephenson. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Kennedy, and Mr. Bryce Thomas. A program will be given by the children at the Yeomen hall Monday evening. October 6. Yeomen are invited to bring their children and participate in the program. Talks, readings and songs will be given by the children and a delightful program has been arranged. Following the pro pram, a potluck supper v.ill be held . nd the members are invited to attend. Mrs. B T. Terveer was hostess to the Bachelor Maids last evening at her home on Fourth street At 6:30 o'clock, a dinner of pretty appointments was served after which tables wi re raranged for Five Hundred. Prizes were awerded to Mrs. Dan • bldiek and Mrs. James Brown. The Arcton Bridge Club met last v nfng with Miss Genevieve Berling. Out-of-town guests were Mrs. T. A. i.enahan, of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Irthur Lutz, of Louisville, Ky. Sevral rounds of Bridge were enjoyed md priz< s were won by Mrs. Raymond Koiine. Mrs. Lee Lawless, Mrs. Frank Lose and Mrs. H- L. Kern. The <uest prize was won by Mrs. Arthur Lutz. Dainty refreshments were served at a late hour and clever Hallowe’en favors were given the guests. Te opening meeting of the Woman’s Club will be held in the Reformed chinch next Tuesday evening. October 27, at six o’clock. A banquet "ill be served by the ladies of the church, after which an important business session will be held. All club members are urged to attend this! meeting. Banquet tickets can be secured from the respective chairman. Membership dues will be colected at this time. The ladies of the Presbyterain church wil conduct their annual White Elephant Sale in the old Niblick building, which was formerly occupied by the Old Adams County Bank. Friday ai d Saturday, November 6 and '■ The liberal patronage of the public is solicited Mrs. A. R. Ashbaucher entertained the members of the Five Hundred

Prettiest Girl A I • 'J £1 . HgF Ifc __ J; Dorothy Benjamin, of New York, was voted the most beautiful girl aboard the Leviathan on its most recent trip from Europe to New ' | Y ork. i Chib Wednesday evening at her horn . on Third street. The club prizes wer . won by Mrs. Herman Gillig. Mrs. Joe . Lose and the guest prize was awarde 1 I to Mrs. O. L Kirsch. The hostess. , served delicious refreshments at the close of the games. The next meet Ing will be held with Mrs. Frank Bar • thel in two weeks. The regular meeting of the Histor . ical (Tub wrs held Wednesday after . noon at the home of Mrs. J. R. Blair Mrs. J. M. Mi ler read a very interest . ing paper on “The Story of ('hem s , try.” The next meeting will be heh i at the home of Mrs. E. S. Christen not th of the city, and Mrs. Fred Ahi . will have the paper. The hostess wa. assisted in serving refreshments bj rs. Paill Edwards. , o L©<giih’ I It’s reverses an’ not boosts tha develop rcg’lar fellers. What’s worse’: bein’ on a fraternal committee an havin’ neuritis in th' right hand?— Abe Martin, Indianapolis News. . Michaud, of Berne, was a bus , iuess visitor in the city yesterday. Mrs. Russell Melchi and daughter land Mrs. Bowman spent the day it ’ Fort Wayne visiting with friends am relatives. ' i Miss Annette Moses is attendln; the meeting of the Tri-State Librar

1 ians at Fort Wayue today. j L. L. Yager, of Berne, looked after , business interests here Wednesday I afternoon. Miss Thorireta Osborn, of Fort Wayne, is a guest of Miss Irene Walters for a few days. ■ i Dawn Turner and F. R. Sowers, of ■ Fort Wayne, visited friends here last evening. I I Mrs. H F. Costello the day "I in Fort Wayne visiting with her son-, •! in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. ’ ‘ P. Meehan. ’j Mrs. George Wemhoff visited friends. ! at Fort Wayne this afternoon. ’l Mrs. Jennie Ranier and Mrs. Agnes ? Andrews are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rosenwlnkle at Fort Wayne today. i ’ Mrs. C. E. Bell spent the day in Fort 1, Wayne visiting with friends. - W. A. Klepper is attending to bust iness for the Cloverleaf Creameries i at Cleveland this week. I ti Woik on Thirteenth street is nearI ing completion and the street will I soon be opened. The contractor has II done a splendid job and has lost no - time. Winchester street cannot bo ( • improved until spring because the emulsified asphalt cannot be successfully handled during cool weather. Ira Fuhrman has sold his residence on north Second street to Rudy Meyers and will give possession of same March Ist. The Misses Norma Cain, Esther Blosser, Helen Thurston and Bitty, Watson, of Bluffton, attended senior dance at the Masonic hall last evening. Miss Mae Berling was a business visitor at Fort Wayne this afternoon

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925.

SCHWAB HAS AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW; x . I Head Os Big Steel Corporation Thinks U. S. Has Bright Future Chicago, Oct. 22—Charles Schwab I an optimist on the future of the United States; he holds that a glance at the barometer of business, steel production, Is enough to make anyone cheerful. I Mills of the United States are produe ng steel at the rate of 60,000.000.000 tons annually, Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, said in speaking at the conference on education and industry held today at hte University of Chicago. | “In 1879 we made 1.000,000,000 tons of steel," he said "Now we are making 60,000,000,000 tons and it is only a matter of time before we are prodm ing 100.000 000,000 tons annually “1 long for 25 years more of life to watch the industrial development of th s country.” I Schwab's eves swept the audience which included Vice President Charles G. Dawes. Major General James O Harbord, head of the Radio Corpora tion of America; Samuel instill, “pub lie utilities king,” of the middlewest: Thomas E. Wilson, packer; Max Mason, president of the university and other not 'd men, and sa'd: “The man who succeeds is the one wfy> loves his work; who makes something as well as the other man but makes it cheaper and who keeps cheerful. “The idea is to be fearless in business.” Major General Harbord spoke on the rapid advance of the radio industry and estimated this year's busi ness will reach a figure vastly high er than the 1924 total of 1350,000,000. Technical progress is being made ? steadi’y, he said “Every part of the world is destin ’ ed to benefit from improved com I municatlons,” he said. “Entire writ- ’ ten messages, perhaps newspapers. ' will be flashed as complete pictures ■ or documents.” 1 : UZU/ZU/Z: 7/7/, 77. V//7777Z/ Court House | ■ $ i i Kalver Will Probated. The last will and testament of Barnett (Barney) Kalver was probat--i ed in court today. The will provided that one-half of the money to be de- ; rived from the decedent’s life insur- ■ ante policies be given to a son, Jacob 'B. Kalver. and the other half to a | grandson. Roy Kalver; that SI,OOO be i given to a son. Isadore A. Kalver; * .and the rest of the estate to Jacob B. Kalver. Jacob B. Kalver was apt pointed executor. The will was writn ten December 31, 1921. As Judge ,• Jesse ('. Sutton was a witness to the will, he declined jurisdiction in the matter and appointed Attorney C. J. ~ Lutz special judge, .1 . Divorce r ' In the case of Harry Cochran vs. n Mary Cochran, venued to this county 4 from Wells county, a divorce was granted to the plaintiff. „ Case Continued. The case of the state vs. Ervin

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Llechty was continued today by agreement of the parties. i Judgment Awarded. In the case of the Old Adams, County Bank vs. Gust anil Fred Reinking, the court awarded judgment for the plaintiff In the sum of $261.30 and , costs. 1 Set For Trial. I I The case of Edna Troutner vs. Greely Troutner has been set for trial of October 29. Bill Os Exceptions Filed. In the case of The Starr Plano Com pany vs. Murray J. Scheerer, a hill of exception was filed by the defendant. i In the case of Sarah Mildred Ault vs. Berch F. Farr, the defendant tiled a bill of exceptions. ■ —o No Clues Obtained In “Hell Hollow” Newcastel, Pa.. Oct. 22—(United Press)—The marshes of “Hell Hollow" in which evidence of three murders have been discovered in two weeks have successfully defied authorities in their attempt to clear up the mysteries. Organized search through the slimecovered swamp has been abandoned, it was announced, and today only those impelled by ccurioslty will venture out again In an attempt to obtain some tangible clew. Will C. Andrews, sheriff of Lawrence county, today was engaged in the examination of a handful of dark brown hair; the lower jaw of the skull previously discovered; a few finger bones; a vertebrae and a knee cap—the last addition to the gruesome collection which began when the headless body of a man was discovered on Oct. 6. Residents near the "murder marsh" i are astounded and fearful. Similar murders —four or five of them —which never have been solved, are remembered. Authorities today said they believed > the first murder victim to be W. W. Fletcher, a welder of Youngstown. 0., a former resident of Columbus. Fletch, er was traced from the time he left . the Vanier hotel, Youngstown, on Sept. 25, for Newcastle. Mrs. Fletcher, how- ! sver, says she received two letters from her husband since he disappear'd. one of them having been written jn Buffalo "a week or two ago." | ‘Earl Os Stafford” Is A Prisoner In Indianapolis Jail . Indianapolis, Oct. 22. — (United Tess i—Aditional trobule clouds gatb■red today about the titled head of lie “Earl of Stafford.” a prisoner in ' the county jail. 1 Detectives received word that W. A. Ihjeesley, of Rosebud. Mont., was hastning to file Charges of white slavery ’ igainst Arthur Stafford, who claims 1 o be a scion of the old English nobility. Sheesley’s wife left home with the ' ’nobleman” on promise that her ladyship would one day fall heir to the property of the Earl in England. The woman was arrested witli Staf ’ord, who was first detained for passing alleged fraudulent checks. O — Fire Destroys Glass Company’s Warehouse t , Alexandria. Ind., Oct. 22. —Lobs estimated at $25,000 resulted last night when fire swept the warehouse of the i Lippincott Glass company here.

LOWER IS HEAD | OF PYTHIAN HOME SITE COMMITTEE (Continued from Page One) have the required amount by Janujury 1, so that work can be started 'soon after that date. The drive sot the additional money was plated in (Charge of the seventeen district chairmen, Dr. R. G. Kuoff, of Bluffton, a former Decatur man, being In charge of this district. They anticipate no dlficulty, as the amount requiretl Is only about one dollar for each membef. »■ ■■■' " O 1 — - ADAMS COUNTY PIONEER DIES (Continued from page one)

ly after they were married and they were among the first settlers of that part of the county. Two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Stahr. Mr. Stahr has been almost blind for the last several years, but he was always keenly interested in public activities and especially his church, in which he was an active member since boyhood. He first belonged to the Evangelical church and later to the Methodist Episcopal church. “The Welfare of Your Soul. First,” was Mr Stahr's inottor through Ufa. Surviving are the one daughter, Mrs. Erwin, of Monroeville; three grandchildren; three great grand--1 children and one sister. Funeral services will be held at 1 Monroeville at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. with burial in the Monroe ville cemetery. Railroad Helps State Build Large Bridge r ' Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 22. — (Spec- ( ial.) A splendid example of co-oper-ation between the state highway department and a railroad to provide a ! suitable and safe bridge crossing for the public, ts announced by state road officials in the completion of what is ’ known as the Drain bridge on t ‘ state roa-l 18 at a point just north of Rockport. I Here the Evansville and Ohio Valley Railway company co-operated with the state road body to build a new bridge costing approximately $32,000. I of which amount the traction company paid $7,060. The stun the traction company paid was determined on the basis of the ratio of width of roadway used by it to the width of road- | way used for the state road. II The new bridge is a -reinforced concrete structure, that owing to the soft j ground on which it rests, required unusually long foundation piling. It replaces an old concrete structure that had broken up and bocem hazardous due to the soft subsoil and insuffic- '' lent piling in the foundation, having y been constructed during a period s when traffic was not near so heavy as that of today. —o — e —Subscribe For The Daily Democrat —

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recommended and an interesting program is anticipated. The entertainment will start at 8 o’clock. Miss Naomi Butler returned to South Bend after a several days visit here with her parents. Mrs. Frank Buker spent the afternoon in Fo*t Wayne visiting with friends.