Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1927 — Page 5

NEWS FROM BERNE —by— M j ss Helen Burkhalter Striker «a» u visitor at Fort SundHy ■ Mr and Mrs. H«MX Winteregg and rim llv and Mrs. Noah Wintering re,urnell Monday from a few da>’» visH »itli Mrs. Kate Rich and other rel9tirM »' Canton. Ohio. Mi and Mrs. Omer NeueiuchwandPl. IlH d family, und Mr. and Mrs. W ijd Neulianser and family arrived bon)< Monday from Winona Lake aD tl Oakwood Park, where they spent |Mt week. Little Miss Anna Louise SchlotzJguer. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mil|oo seßiatihauer. of Bluffton, is spending the week with her grandparents. Mr and Mrs. John Winteregg, while her parents and sister ure visiting ,t Detroit. Mich. . very interesting piano recital was given at the Auditorium by tho pupils of Mrs E. M Webb, of Monroe, Tuesday evening. The stage was beauti fully decorated with ferns and flowers. Kendall Cultice and Miss Ret ha Slewart. of Union City, were guests of Miss Neola llabegger. Sunday afternoon Miss Stewart and Miss Habegger were formerly room-mates at Muncie. Mr. and Mrs. Joint Liechty and family, of Oblong. 111., are visiting with friends and relatives in and around Berne and Geneva. Mr. Liechty is a brother of Daniel Liechty, of Berne. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Heacker were business callers at Bluffton, Saturday. The Sam Hirschy family held a reunion at Lehman's Grove. Sunday. A. W. Hawk and daughter, of Noblesville, passed through Berne. Saturday. and shook hands with a few friends.

Plans are being made for an Augsburger reunion, to be held at the Defenseless Menuonite church west of Berne on September 1, This will be the first Augsburger reunion and will take in practically all of the Augsburgers living in this community. Mr and Mrs. Alvin Kennel, son Howard. and daughter, Eleanor, and the Misses Dorothy Lehman and Elfrieda Habegger motored to Dayton, Ohio, Friday to spend the week-end with relatives there and at Middletown. Mr and .Mrs. Otto Neuenschwander and daughters, Gladys and Lenora, and sou Ellison, were week-end visitors al Norwalk and Sundusky, Ohio. Miss Mabie Bruan returned to home Monday morning. after spending a week's vacation with relative* at Rockford. ohh>, Mr and Mrs. Wiiierd Habegger returned Saturday night from a trip to Niagara Falls and various other places of interest. Menas Hirachy, of Howe, arrived here Sunday to join with his wife and sone, who have been spending the past week with relatives here. They returned home early Monday morning. William Thompson and son, Earl, and Sherman Essex, of Monroe, returned from Cleveland. Friday. They had been engaged in building for the B- G. Construction Co., at that place for the past five weeks. Mr. and Mrs. 11. E. Seeley, of Hemburg. N. Y. and Ellsworth Hickman, of Greenville, Pa., are visiting relatives in this community. Mr and Mrs. Mark Yager and family. of West Unity, Ohio, visited at the Lawrence Yager home Sunday. Mrs. Lena Yager returned home with them after spending a few weeks there. Roy Beery was at Fort Warne on business Monday. Mrs. Mary Oplinger an 1 daughters. Celina ano Faye, returned from tneir visit at Detroit last Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrsf. Fred Braun and daughters, Ethel and Grace, and Mrs. John Bachman, of Decatur, visited relatives here Sunday. Albert Yoder an<J son. Dwight, of Detruit, Michigan, are looking after business matters at Linn .Grove and Me visiting with friends. The members of the Sunday school Gass of the Reformed church taught by Ed Spichiger, met at the church Sunday afternoon and went to the , home of one of their members, Walter Amstutz, son of John M. Amstutz, in Jefferson township- The boys enjoyed themselves with baseball and

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| tennis and. late, a lunch was served. Those present were: Walter Amstutz, Luther Yager, Paul Speicher, Walter Hawbaker, Albert Stahly, Harold Kattman, Dan Speicher, Marcus Gerber, i Arthur Mower, George Btanley Jones,’ Robert Ehrsam. tart stuck'. John Stahley, Victor Price and Gerald Trout besides the teacher, Ed Splchiger. | Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ellcnberger, of New Haven, are the parents of a boy baby since Saturday, Aug. 20. Monday afternoon, a group of twelve little girls gathered at the Ixm Lehman home to help their daughter, Vivian, celebrate her ninth birthday. Those 1 present were: Berneta Reusser, Kathryn Mettler. Greehen Stuckey, Betty Ixihman. Maty Eichenberger, ManJane Nussbaum, Betty Schindler, Christine Habegger, Anna Louise Bchug, Winifred Winteregg, Odu Baumgartner and Vivian Lehman. Tlie Spkhiger reunion will lie held Hex' Saturday at the Lehman Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Philip lluser entertained the following relatives from Knox since Thursday: Mrs. H. Roseand her son, William. Mrs. Ben Sommers and her son, Alfred and daughter, Bernice. Mr. and Mrs. Doit McCrory and son, Jimmie, were week end visitors at the Aiirurn Thomas home ai Union City, Ind. 1 t Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lehman visited at tlie Erl Swartz home at Elkhart, Sunday. Mr. und Mrs. Joel Fry. of Bluffton, visited with relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Orten Wulliman, oL Fort Wayne, were Sunday visitors at the Mis. Helena Wulliman home. Nelson Schug, Elmer Price ami th< Misses Beatrice Brewster and Emma Schug are spending this week at Long Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Bierie and daughter visited at the home of Mrs.’ Jiierie's parents. Mr. ami Mrs. Vernon Pontius at Geneva, Sunday. Dr. C. G- Emiek, David Depp and! Homer Schug returned from Three Rivers Mich.. Thursday, after having spent a few days’ vacation there. Willis und Allen LuginbiH. of La-j grange, visited at the home of their

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. sister, Mrs. Martin L. Sprunger over , the weekend. Miss Arvada Wulliman visited friend? at Beulah Beach, Ohio, over I tho week-end. I Mrs. Bertha Bagley and son, Hur- ■ mon anil daughters, Nora and Olenitis, and grand-daughter, Maxine Beaver.-, spent Sunday at the Frank Wagner home at Decatur and at tho | Victor Bagiev home at Fort Wayne. Prof, and Mrs. C. D. Kirklin, of Franklin, spent the last week-end with Snpt. and Mrs. E. W. Jeffery. Mr. and Mrs. Ejdiriam Steiner, of Upland, California, and Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Sprunger and son. Oral, of Fort I Wayne, were guests at the Eli Lugln- ' bill home Wednesday. Mr and Mrs. less Amstutz and family were visitors at Fort Wayne, Tuesday. Milton Bedertsc her,.student at Bulffton college, is visiting here with his sisters, Miss Florence Baderstscher and Mrs. Dan Morand, this week. Harold Reusser lett Tuesday for Bloomington, 18., where he will spend about a week with friends. Mrs. Ralph Stager and Mrs. Verna Schneck are visiting at the home of Albert Schoeck at Fort Wayne this week. Mr and Mrs. Albert B. Clapp, of Jefferson. arrived here Wednesday to visit at the home of Senator T. A. Gottschalk. Clifton Nussbaum and Francis Ries''*l left Monday night for Milwaukee and Kenosha. Wisconsin, to get two new Nash cars. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kamholtz and family returned home Monday evening alter visiting their parental homes in Illinois for two weeks. Mr. ami Mrs. Ned Meshberger and I family, Mrs. Goldie Gottschalk and family and Mr. and Mrs- Mark Mosor : and family enjoyed Wednesday at ■ Celina, Ohio. George Long, of Pittsburg, Pa., is visiting at the Russel Long home. Mr. and Mrs. John Steiner and Mr. | and Mrs. Cyrus Lehman and family visited at the Levi Steiner home at Dalton, Ohio, the first part of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sprunger and tlie Aliases Mary and Rachel Burkhalter

the latter of Martinsville, left early Thursday morning for a trip to the eastern slates. They will be gone about two weeks. I Next Frida) evening, the pupils of Eldon Sprunger will give a piano recital at the Auditorium. The admission will be free. Hev. F. I). Whitesell, of Chicago, had charge of the prayer meeting at the Meniemite ihun-h Wednesday evening. A large crowd was in attendance. Miss Amelia Iscli, who is employed by tho Berne Overall and Shirt Co., enjoyed a few day's vacation at Van Wert, Ohio, last week. Howard Michaud returned home Monday from Winoi a Lake, where he has been doing biological research work He is helping on tlie editing staff of tlie Witness this week. Mrs. C. H. Schenk and daughter, Deloris, and son Max. of Lagrange, arrived here Wednessday to visit at tlie Dr. Emiek heme. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ringger, son, La-1 verne, and daughter. Amelia, and Mrs Ringger’s mother. Mrs. Godfried Rauch are planning to motor to Gridley, Hl., next Friday, to spend several days with Mr. Ringger’s pareents, Mr'and Mis. Jacob Ringger. Simon Shindler and daughters, Mabel and Laura, of Jacfkspn, Mich., spent a few days with their parents, and grandparents, David Schindler, here. Mr. Schindler and Miss Mabel returned home Wednesday, while Miss Laura will visit hue for another week. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Nacal and son, Walter and daughter, Miss Dora, returned home Wednesday afternoon, from a few week's sight seeing trip to California. o Special chicken dinner. Sun-1 day 30p. Why cook? Bob’s Kitchen, Liberty Way. 2t o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

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Peru Legion Post Makes $1,636 Staging Pageant Peru. Ind. Aug 26.—The Glen Owens post of the American la-gion made u profit of *1,636.40 out of the staging of the pageant. "Ma-con-u-quah" here* this month, it was revealed today in a tabulated report made public by Dr. Don A. Mahley, chairman of the pageant finance committee The total actual receipts were *s,212.17. The total gate receipts were *6,596.04, indicating that approximately 12,000 person bought single admission tickets dining the four nights that the production was presented. A total of 206 patron season tickets] weie sold for a total of *1,030. These! tickets Entitled two persons to admission every night, and if they were all used on every night they admitted a total of 1.048 persons, bringing the total paid admissions to more titan 13,600 for the four nights. o — Stump Speaking Via Airplane Route A Hit With Moody Os Texas Austin, Tex., Aug. 36. —(UP)—Governor Dan Moody, youthful chief executive of'Texas, has solved the difficult task of personally campaigning ;: Ashbaucher ’$ ;! FURNACES :! LIGHTNING RODS I SPOUTING ] 1 SLATE ROOFING ] !; Phone 765 or 73V ;

Texas, largest or ail states. Tlie governor took his first airplane trip the other day. Heretofore, he had ben eskeptieal*of airplanes and hud refused to ride in one. However, the governor had business to attend to in Wucco, Fort Worth and

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Dallas withiti a period of 12 hours. Train travel was too slow so he consented to ride in an airplane. ■ c>--- — — — Andrew Goltsclialk and sister, Amanda, are visiting at the B. F. Welty home this week.