Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1925 — Page 5

IB CLUB CALENDER Monday Yeoman Christmas Party—Members an d families— Yeoman Hall, 8 p. m. King 1 ’ Daughters S. 8. Class of the Evangelical Church—Mrs. Garard, 6 o'clock. i Yri 1) Club Christmas Party—Miss Florlne Michaud, 10 p. tn. Tuesday Put lota Xi Christmas Party—Mrs. A. RF. Holthouse, 8 p. m. Rebekah Lodge Christmas PartyLodge Rooms. The Triangle Club of the Christian church mot Thursday evening at the home of Miss Josephine Anderson, east of the city. The annual exchange of gifts was held and the members were the recipient of beautiful gifts.l After a short business meeting, games an d contests were enjoyed- Refreshments were served by the hostess, jliss Isabelle Cloud will be hostess at the next meeting. The members of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the United Brethren church will serve a chicken pie dinner in the dining room of the church on New Year’s Eve. The patronage of the public is solicited. The Kirkland Indies’ Club will meet at the Kirkland high school Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Important business will be transacted and all members are urged to be present. The annual Christmas party and exchange of the Rebekah lodge members will be held Tuesday evening after lodge. A pot luck supper will be served. Miss Marcella Hower delightfully \ entertained the members of the Bridge Club Thursday evening at her home on Fourth street. Miss Genevra Stick was the only guest besides the club members#. Miss Angie Firks won first prize at Bridge and Miss Florinc Michaud was awarded the consolation prize. At the conclusion of the games, the exchange of gifts was held and refreshments were served. Mrs Augusta Schamerloh, of Fifth street, entertained a number of friends last evening in honor of the| birthday anniversaries of Miss Vera Lindhorst and Mr. Henry Kruckeberg. of this city. Bunco and pinochle was played and delightful refreshments were served. The guests were Elise and Gretchen Bleeke, Alma Schlemmer, 'Selma and Augusta Reinking, Emma Bultemeier, Elmo Bleeke, Clarence Dersch, Paul Reinking. Grover Bleeke, Carl, Henry, Oscar Reinking, Harold Bleeke, Hugo Bleeke. Henjy Burckeberg.

o— Loeafls llershell Reynolds, who has been ill for several weeks, is greatly improved, according to word received at this office today. Hugh Holthon,se, Notre Dame student, is spending the Christmas vacation with his mother, Mrs. Mary Holthouse and family Mrs. Arthur Pence, of Burr Oak, Michigan, is visiting at the home of Mrs. James Steele, in Kirkland town ship. Mr. and firs. C. D Colter motored to Oxford, Ohio, yesterday and were accompanied hqme late in the afternoon by their daughter, Miss Dealt, Miss Margaret Jane Hoffman and Miss Eloise Lewton, who are students at Western College. ■''Miss Hoffman "ill spend the Christmas vacation with her parents? Mr and Mrs. V . H Hoffman at Fort WayneMfl. and Mrs. Dan Roop and children of east of the city, were shoppers here litis morning. Mrs. Ernst Schlickman ami Mi. Ai;gi- Firks spent the day in Fort: Wayne visiting with friends Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ilovernian and son, Vernon J., of Van Wert. Ohio will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Elzey over Sunday. George and Lloyd Kienzle, who are • attending the Randolph-Maken Mili : tary Acadeijiy at Bedford- Va, "’ll : arrive home Monday for a three ; week'.-, visit with their mother, Mrs 5 Flora Kienzle. Deane Dorwin. student at 1' rank- t lin College, Franklin, is spending tho • Christmas vacation with his mother, > Mrs. Maude Dorwin The Durkin Modern Garage, agents | for the Dodge car. are distributing » attractive calendars to the business j houses, Mr® Elizabeth Hutchinson, of Co- | lumbus. Ohio who is visiting here < has declared her intentions of ie- S

nminhiK for the n K on the 28 th ail „ a wlll A, 7"' J>«t h> the program. t J - Frank Man “. of Mueci., wri J UH that he is coming over Alumni meeting and to see an I ’he old timern. hMr Bill Rogers wantw 18 wlks on elgJr? hat “ sings? Why a quar|pl n , lcKfl I’airyland, monthly pi I bii < *T M ‘' 1 ’he Cloverleaf CreameJlJ ,° f mailed Tuesday. '• 1 bo . Miss Lee Anna Vance arriv < , ■ night from Pprr hon "' ls attending school, to s. , r a ? 1 ah ° weeks’ Christmas vacation ” arßn " Mr. ami Mrs 0 ? v ” Miss Ruth Cook t„r, ' ance - Ohio, when, ’he holidays with her parents. " Miss Peterson win from ls “ at Indiana Univers tv I 1 ■’Pend the Christmas vacatio Sh Pvents, Mr. and Mrs j q .. . her ■Miss Marjorie May' | s 8 p el , “T' holidays with her parents at r ,“ S I Miss i «t Corunna. I Miss Helen lx>wer, of Moorehead M nn., who is attending school at In' dUnapolis .arrived yesterday to spend 4. *»

Stguard Anderson, teacher in the iocal high school, is spending the Christvacation with his parent, alHa|t . Mrs. Ada Martin ami daughter. Max“e. spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne with friends. J. A. Sutton left today for Detroit, Michigan, to spend Christmas with relatives and friends. Tom Reed spent the afternoon in F ort Wayne on business. Mrs. Jeanette Steele, of Burr Oak, Michigan, is convalescing at the home of Mrs. M. j. We i k e r after havi|)g * felon removed from her finger. \ ance Mattox, of Geneva, was a business visitor here this niorniung. Miss Naomi Holthouse will arrive home tomorrow from Sacred Heart Academy at F'ort Wayne, to spend the Christmas vacation with her mother. Mrs Minnie Holt house and other relatives here. Robert Voglewede, of Notre Dame University, will arrive tomorrow to spend Christmas vaqation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Voglewede. Clarence and Robert Strickler spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne, visiting with friends. Miss Helen Gerber was the guest of friends at Fort Wayne today. Miss Vera Ehdy, of Fort Wayne, will spend the weekend with her mother Mrs. Rebecca Eady. Miss Maude Anderson is spending the holidays with her parents at Madison Miss Mary Callow, of Fort Wayne spent a few hours in the city this afternoon visiting with relatives and friends. Miss Mary Bauman of F’ort Wayne, is the week-end guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bauman. Any person who ever attended the Decatur high school is entitled to membership in the Alumni and welcome to tlio banquet on the 28lh and it is hoped that especially those old timers who attended school hero before we bad commencements will come. Albert E. Miller, of Convoy, Ohio, underwent a tonsillotomy at the Adams County Memorial Hospital this morning and is getting along nicely. Nora KoideWey who underwent an operation for ruptured appendix two days ago, is slowly improving. o Man Dies At Age Os 102 Versailles, Ind., Dec. 19.—(United Press)—Seven children today survived Dennis Beach, 102, oldest resident of Ripley county who died from pneumonia. LEGION NOTICE There will be an important meeting of the Decatur post of the Ameiican Legion Sunday afternoon at the Legion ball at 2 o’clock. It is urged by present officers that all members attend. Election of officers will be held and other important business will come before the body for action. Pay your city light hills not later than Monday, Dec. 21 and save discount. Power hills arc also due. —2. w »» w W if if if V.

fc K;<rtxX Ki >: ><x x.xx:< xx x " !! “ X * I DANCING I . * dancing j MASONIC HALL | J Saturday, Dec. 19 | 8:45 p. m. | G. E. Harmony Boys R Public invited.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925 —- - •

Damascus is deserted city FROM I’AUK ONE) hoofs and cavalry moves ’treets. i hen, from time t 0 n mCj 101,168 the distant crack of the French soventy.five.’’ You know it is bom(holding rebel groups, hidden away outside the city. Then there comes a wailing chant I , from high up in the minerals a voice calls the faithful to prayer. 1 This is the Damascus of rebellion; 10 ancient city after revolt against 1 renvh control ami subsequent bom- ’ It i» evident that the rebellion is aroken in Damascus tor the moment, "it ’he fires of revolt are still smoul- > 'lying and it will be long before the 1 i ranch are able to relax their control • and permit even a semblance of civil ■ government. Hebei activity in the south has been ' ‘suppressed, but bands of marauders • "nd revolutionaries are roaming the , country. I waß escor t P( ] by a troop of ■ gendarmerie upon coming into DaniasI cus and witnessed a running fight with '■ '' SlOlr of bandits who had cut the rail-

road. The French are now cutting down groves and destroying the gardens in the suburbs of Damascus. ———..fr ■ —— Forester Advises State To Grow Own Christmas Trees Indianapolis, Dec. 19. — (United ITsrs)—lndiana should grow its own Christmas trees and thus save hundreds of dollars annually. This was the substance of a statement made today by Charles G. Deam. state forester for the state department of conservation. If Indiana did grow Its own Christmas trees, and the soil of the state is suited to the growth, lh>am said, it would he a very profitable venture, in view of the large area of waste acreage in the state and the retail price of trees shipped into Indiana Th e trees best suited for the festive purposes of Christmas are now gathered in Maine, Vermont, Canada, Michigan and Minnesota and due to the quarantine of some areas, ravages of insect pests and the high freight rates prices advanced nearly 30 per cent this I year, Deam pointed out. The type of tree best suited for

Conqueror. Os The Mongolian Wilds Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, who startled the world a few years ago by discovering a nest of dinosaur eggs ten million years old, arrived in New York on November 9th from his Third Asiatic Expedition under the auspices of the ; American Museum of Natural History. Again he attributes much of the success of his expedition to the astounding performance of his five Dodge Brothers Motor Cars. Following is a direct quotation from an official statement by Dr. Andrews upon his return to America: The Gobi Desert in Mongolia is tho most extensive undeveloped and unexplored region now left in the world. Until a few years ago it was retarded by tho impossibly slow traffic of camel trains, the only means of communication. But now it is being crisscrossed in every direction by motor cars, or, more correctly by one motor car, the Dodge. Sixty or seventy Dodge Brothers cars are making regular trips far into the interior of this vast waste, bringing out loads of sables, precious furs, wool and other products. No other car except the Dodge is found there because we have tried it out on each of our three expeditions and have had it demonstrated to our satisfaction that the Dodge is the only car that will stand up under the strain of the roadless desert and do everyx thing we ask of it. Few people have occasion to subject their motor cars to punishment of this severity. It is reassuring, however, to know that in emergencies Dodge Brothers Motor Car is built to meet the test. These dependable and sturdy qualities also account for the fact that more than 90% of all the motor cars Dodge Brothers have built during the past eleven years, are still in active service. X > Thomas J. Durkin, Distributor Opposite Court House Decatur, Indiana

Christmas decoration are Norway spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, and Douglas fir with the preference given to Norway spruce, it was said. "Unfortunately, none of these species arc native to Indiana," Deam declared, "so the alternative is to grow them ami assure, at least the people of Indiana, a sufficient supply at a reasonable price. The Norway spruce lends itself admirably to tlio Indiana sol) and climate." This tree, officials of the conserva-i tlon department pointed out, grows best on a fairly deep well drained, porous soil with a fair amount of moisture. It the tree is planted in sandy soil the foliage tends to become yellowish, but a greenish color can be restored by applying a top dressing of manure to the qoil, it was said. Occasional cultivation for two years after planting is recommended by the department and after that the trees will shift for themselves. After seven years the trees would average over five feet in height and be ready for the market. Land that is otherwise worthless, can in this manner be made to produce several hundred dollars an acre, it was said.

Army Officer Held Following Auto Wreck Indianapolis, Dec. 19. — (United Press)—Captain W. It. Craig, an army officer stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, was charged with assault and battery today following an accident in which his auto struck a machine driven by Wm. Eller, of Muncie. Mrs. Addie Salmon. 57. riding with Eller, was badly injured in the crash. Auburn — Auburn Junction does not want to become a part of Auburn. When the city council recently began steps for annexation every resident of the junction signed a against the move. o Milford — Thanksgiving turkeys are going to be cheaper In this vicinity this year. There are more turkeys to be seen on the farms today than at any time in the past decade. The prices will be about 45 cents per pound. —o- - — Save the discount on your liuht hills hy paying on or before Dec, 21. Monday is last day. Power bills are also due.

CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat. Dec. (new) 11.69 3-4; (old) II 68 3-4; May. (new) *164; (old) •1 62; July *1.43 1-8 corn, Dec. 73 3-4; May *0 6-8; July 82 5-8. Oats. Dec. 39 7-8; May 44 3-8; July 44 5-8. o—. ——— Tipton — There Is one woman in this city who. according to official records is married although she hasn’t been boru. Au error by the marriage license clerk gave the woman's birth date as 1970. Bluffton — Homer Sparks is a "hot boy." He stepped out of his auto the other day and some matches in his pocket ignited. Homer Is recovering from a badly blstered leg. Evansville —A strange woman walked up to Normal O. i. Bee. laundryman the other day and said, "Now I’ve got you,—lf I only had a gun." Police rescued Norman. Eczema Can Be Cured So can the various skin and scalp diseases. Try a box of B. B. Ointment It cures most skin and scalp diseases when used according to instructions. At all druggists—Get a box today