Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1926 — Page 3
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CLUB CALENDER Tuesday Tri K«PP«-» 1M M “ ry Burk 8p “ Pythian Needle Club-Pythian home Grove. Mia.ionary Society Mrs J-C. HarWew. 2p. m. ' r ,.|„ c a a» ( ! Thre " lblnk Club ’ 7: ’° Wednesday Vnlon Township 4-H Club - Mrs. unvd Bowman. postponed. Home Economics club of Union .rtwnshlp-Wnu Jadob Uorkley. % t Vincent de P«MI. K« C. Hall. 2:30 p- m. Thursday Kirkland Ladies Club-Mrs. Fred Bracht, afternoon. z Saturday M E. Epworth League — Central Grocery. A. M. .Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Lawson enter mim'd Sunday at dinner tor Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Christy and daughters. Eloise. Elaine and Ruth Ellen. Mr. Christy. Mr and Mrs. Charles Sanders Ml ami Mrs. Clarence Smitley and ions Vet non and Archie Smitley. The Pleasant Grove Missionary Society will meet with Mrs. J. C. Hark less Tuesday at two o’clock. All mem bers are urged to attend. The Home Economics Club of Union township will meet Wednesday even ing with Mrs. Jacob Barkley. All mem bers and their families are invited A short program wfll be given which will include contests for which prizes will be given. The hostesses are Mrs ja<ob Barkley. Mrs. William frork inger. and Mrs. Ross Harden. Mr. and Mrs. D. 8. Gates and daugh ter. of Wren. Ohio. entertained at din nor and supper yesterday for Mr. ano Mr- Charles Snyder, Mr. and Mrs John Evertt and Mr. and Mrs. U. E Peterson of this city Tin Rebecca and Three Link club will meet Tuesday evening. All mem bers are requested to attend. The Yout.g Peoples Missionary Circle of the Evangelical church wiP meet Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Fred 'ffngle. at \ 219 iitigg street. All members are urged to attend. CVLB CAL TUESbAY Young Peoples Missionary Circle 7:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Fred Engle. Rugg street. Tile Epworth League of the Methodist tchurch will hold a pastry sale at the Central Grocery, Saturday morning beginning at 8:00 o’clock. The meeting of Union Township 4-H club, set for Wednesdy at 1:30 o'clock at the home of the local leader. Mrs. Lloyd Bowman, has been postponed until a later date. »*■*>• - <w» -
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Mr. and Mrs. Allen Vesey, of Fort Wayne, visited at the E. W. Kampc home here last evening. The board of governors of the Decatur Country club will meet at 7:30 o'clock this evening, at the club, for the purpose of organizing and attending to several important matters. Il J Harting, president of the Chautauqua association, will call a meeting of his board this week and will plan with them a campaign which it is expected wilt' put the Chautauqua over bigger than ever. The dates are the last of this Aug ust and the first of September. Miss Josephine Myers left last eve ning for Muncie, where she will take a five weeks course at the state normal. Her parents and Mr. and Mrs. R D. Myers accompanied her to Bluffton. Ralph Tpndall, wh» IS attending the Muncie normal, visited, his parents here over Sunday. Miss Mildrd Butler spent the week end at Rome City with friends. Mrs. E. Myers spent Sunday at Lake Wawasee with the Ed Myers family of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. H. T.. Kern motored to Knightstown. Saturday, where Mr Korn looked after business interests Mrs Carrie Ehinger and daughter, Jeanette. Mrs. H. Berllng and daugh•er, Genevieve have returned from a veek’s visit at Green Bay, Wls. ■Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nicholas have re turned from a. week's visit at Detroit. Mp-higin with relatives. Mr. end Mm. I)ee Fryback were the guests of friends dt Rome City, Sunday. -Miss Marie Rrodbeck has returned tram a trip to Yellowstone park and Denver, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Snow and daugh-
tern Eleanbr, Carolyn and Mary of' Wabash. Indiana were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. F Snow and other Decatur friends. They incidentally witnessed the golf eierciSßa nn’Stinday afterhoon, on the Decatur field. Miss Naomi Butler, of Cincinnati Ohio, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H E Butler. Mr and Mrs Corey Met’onnahey of Van Wert, Ohio, were the guests of Mr. and Ml*. C. A. Dugan Sunday, Mr. Fred Huhbard and daughter, Ruth, were the week-end guests at Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan and daughters. Miss Francis Dugan and niece, Miss Peggy Morton, of Evanston, 111., who has been spending the summer her, have gone to Indianapolis to be the guest* of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Goodrich and daughter, Nancy. Miss Kathryn Dorwin has returned home from Muncie where she completed a six weeks course at Muncie Normal School. . Dr. and Mrs. R. B. McKeeman, of Fort Wayne, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hocker and daughter, Jesteen, Sunday. The Misses Mildred’ and Gertrude Yager had as their guests over the weekend the Misses Doris Rider, of Pendleton, Geraldine and Helen Evertt and Messrs. John Wenrick, Jack (tilery. of Bradford. Ohio, and Rollahd Nearing, of Pioneer. Ohio. Joseph Cline, of Geneva, district deputy for the Modern Woodman lodge, was • visitor in Decatur, today. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Roop and family, of Fort Wayne, motored here yesterday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Sam Acker. A picnic dinner was enjoyed by them atSunset Park, after which they motored toWren. Ohio, where they visit ed with their brother, James Roop, whose wife Is seriously ill. Mrs. Roop is the mother of Evangelist Carl Roop, of Findlay, Ohio, who is well known here. o ( Hold Os Religion On People As Strong As Ever Crown Point. Ind, July 26.—(Unit ed Press, i — Religion has just ar strong a hold on the people as it eVer lid, James J. Davis, secretary of labor, told a communty gathering here Sunday. Davis said complaints that the younger generation is losing its faith ire exaggerated and declared “it is probable there never was an age when people believed in religion nj>re ———4 OHurricane Winds Strike Miami; Damage Is Heavy Miami, Fla..- July 26. — (United Pressi—Hurricane winds which have been racing northwestward from th‘‘ Sea for three days struck Miami today. High tension wires were torn down, trees uprooted and damages estiraat ijjl at several thousand dollars Lud been done at 10:30 a m.. the wind at hat hour was gaining velocity rap dly. v o-jH’uii reported o Mttrau pole e. i" be pottMiag to pieces bff Miami Beach. Il is not known whether any persons are on ioard. Child Struck By Auto Kathleen Odle, 8 year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Odle, 509 Mercer avenue, sustained several bruises, but was not seriously hurt, when she was struck by an automobile driven by Judge Jess* C, Sutton, on Mercer avenue,/ Saturday noon. The child stopped from behind a truck directly into the path of Judge Sutton's car. The truck was going north and two cars were going south. The child waited for the truck to. see Judge Sutton’s car. The butnpand the first car to pass, but tailed er struck her and she fell back on it. being carried only a few feet before the judge stopped his car. The accident was unavoidable as far as Judge Sutton, was concerned, according to the child's mother. 1 Q School Text Books Shown In Exhibit Bloomineton. Ind.. July 26. —(Utiit"d Press)—Students at the Indiana university summer school will have au opportunity to study various school text books, school supplies and supplementary material this week. An educational exhibit will be held at the university all of thds week. — o Correction In Price The prices of the round trip tickets for the excursion to Walbridge Park. Toledo, Ohio, to be run under the auspices of the Mbthodist Sunday, school of this city, Wednesday, August 4, are $1.50 for adults and 75 cents! for Childrea. In a story apperaing in I the Daily Democrat last Satuday, it was erfnhCously Stated that the round trip fare tor adults was $1.75. I
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Dance Hall Owner And Orchestra Arrested; Cases Dismissed Again Hartford City, July 26-(United I Preus)— Five arests wore made «t ■ thw Adelphia Gardens dance pavilion last night in the fight between f farmers and the dance hall manager f arising over the opening of the dance hall on Sunday. Four members of the orchestra and the manager of the r pavilion were arrested last night and taken to jail. In mayor’s court this morning, the , cases were all dismissed on motion j of County Prosecutor Mattox, for lack , of evidence. This is the second con- ’ secutlve week that arrests have been made and the cases dismissed. The dance was continued last night after ( the arrests were made and the crowd stayed at the pavilion until about 11:36 o’clock. The management announced that there would be Sunday dancing again 1 next Sunday. -* —o “■ Theodore Steele, Noted & Hoosier Painter, Dies) I* f Bloomington, Ind., July 26—(United t Press) —The body of Theodore Steele, l_ Dean of Hoosier artists and member , of the faculty of Indiana University, was taken To Indianapolis today for , cremation. A brief funeral service will be held in Indianapolis and on Tuesday the . ashes will be returned to his tarnmer home in Brown county and bur- . led beneath an oak tree there. ' Steel’s best known paintings were , Brown county scenes done in the , studio at his summer home. He held the degree of Doctor of Laws from Indiana University, the j highest honor within the power of the university to bestow. The celebrated artist died Saturday at his Brown county home. He had be4n in failing health for some time. He was born in Owen county. Ind., " lu 1847. O re...I- I , State Tax Board , r Opens Hearings Today Ie Indianapolis, Ind., July 26. —(United Press.) —The state tax board to e day began hearings on modification of h eal estate re-assessments and perg. sonal property assessments made e this year. e The hearings will be in progress until Thursday, during whieh time luditors of the ninety-two eoua|ges of the state will appear before the board.. f After the hearings the board will "draw up equalication orders for if counties in which it is found tho e assessments are disproportionate. h Ground Broken For H. F. Ehinger Residence i. !‘ Ground was borken today for tho house to be erected oy H. F. Ehincei, 1 oh the lot purchased I y hint from Mrs. > P. G. Hooper, on Third street. Mr. autl Mrs. Ehinger will erect a two-story • * ' i-ts ry wi-. 1 •’ '■ Agrjnii- " modern in every respect it win nave 't a brick foundation etui a brick veneer n porch. The contract sot building the house was awarded to a local concern and Mr. and Mrs. Ehinger hope to occupy the house this fall. Several other Dei- catlir people are planning to build 9 houses this summer. making this year d one of the largest in the way of new t, building. • > O y—--1, Topeka. Kas., July 26—(United > Press) —An investigation of conditions rl in the Kansas state prison at Lansing f —where Staurday night two convicts s were killed as they attempted to esg cape —Today was announced by Govk ernor Ben S. Jaulen. The attempted escape Saturday 1 night was the second event to mar '< the record of the prison In a month. e About three weeks ago more than 300 • prisoners locked themselves in a mine 5 shaft for 36 hours against what they 3 termed "Impossible living conditions’’ within the- prison. Governor Pauicn. while voicing confidence iu the ability and rule of Wart ten Mackey, said he thought an invc.’-l tigation was due the people of the • state. I The two men killed Saturday were i > l ( Ernest Harwick and Robert Edwards., both were shot by Edwara Ranson, a prison guard. Flat Chested Folks Need More Solid Flesh If your chest is flat—if you have > hollows in cheeks and neck —if you know that a dozen pounds of good , solid flesh will make you look and /feel better go to Holthouse Drug Co. tor any druggist anywhere in America and get a box of McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets. II If you feel run down, get tired easily and feel that your vigor and vitality aren’t up you aren’t satisfied 1 with results after a 30 day trial get f i-Ollt ttibfiby ba<!k.—Ask'Tdr McCoy’s.
Federal Probe Os Strike Violence Is Ordered ladtanapolip, Ind., July 26. —(United Pres’) —Albert wa-d, United States district attorney, today directed Federal Investigators to start an Immediate probe of the dynamiting of a street car here last night which resulted in the injury of a dozen persons, two of whom were seriously hurt. The investigators began question Ing persons living in the nelghlxirhooci in an attempt to trace the movements of the persons who placed the dynamite on the tracks, o- — - Poison Liquor Toll In Buffalo Is 29; Arrest 8 Buffalo, N. Y„ JJuJly 26 —(United Press) — EigHt; arrtsts mede todap as the poison liquor toll in this vicinity reached 29. Buffalo and Canadian poliice united in a drive to close up the source of the liquor. Charges of manslaughter, first degree. have been placed against two persons, police announced. They are Carrit Sucharskl, wife of Joseph Sucharski, soft drink parlor proprietor, and Joseph ("Patsy") Banos, alleged bootlegger. o Robert Colter Promoted to Factory Superintendency Robert Cotter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Colter, of this city, has been' promoted to the position of factory superintendent of the Hill-Clark Company. manufacturers of heavy machinery and machine tools, at Oak Park. Illinois. Mr. Colter nas been with the Hill-Clark company since his graduation front Purdue university a few years ago. It is a large company and the position of factory superintendent Is a responsible one. o Use Family Car Too Much Indianapolis. Ind., July 24. — (United Press) —Permission to use the family car at any time is blamed by Criminal Judge James A. Collins for much of the criminal work perpetrated by boys throughout the country. He deplored the practice in a statement made when he eentened four boys to prison terms for alleged, stealing and stripping of machines here. o Lancaster Principal Hired C. R. Bair of Jay county, has been . employed as principal of the Lancaster township consolidated high school, , in Wells county. He succeeds Huro Gale, who resigned. Mr. Bair has been teaching in Louisville, Kentucky, lie will move his family to Bluffton soot). At Least Six Killed When Bridge Collapses \ Charleston. West Virginia, July 26. — (United Press) —The people of the little town of Whitesville, 40 miles from here, have seen tragedy climax the carnival which was to have be-Ht their gayest event of the summer. A bridge from which they were watching the antics of a "‘Human ♦r. .A!W9t».-m mm* dropping the spectators into a roc':y
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