Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1927 — Page 5

SOC®Y

CLUB CALENDER Tueaday ItelU Theta Tau Oiled Meeting— Mildred Keller, 7 p.m. Carpi' Diem Club—Mrs. Alva Lawson. 7:30 P- ®- C. L. of C.-7 p. m. St. Marys Choir—Catholic hinh schoof, 7:45 p.tn. Doreaa Class qf Evangelical Sunday School— Jesse Tricker home. Woman’s Club—At Library, 6:45. Tri Kappa Mrs. Charles Holthouse, 8 pm. Civic Section of Woman’s ClubLibrary, 7 pm. Psi lota Xi picnic. Members meet at Mrs. Leigh Bowen home at 5:30 pm. C. L. of C. at K. of C. hall. Social hour. Thursday Phoebe Bible class—M. F. Worthman home, 7:30 p. m. Christian L. A. S. —William Teeple _ home. ' Triangle Club of Christian church — Mrs. Andy Artman, 7 I*. M. • Baptist Woman's Society pot-luck supper, 6:30 P. M., public program 7-.3U P. M. at church. Friday M. E. Ladies Aid Society—Church Parlors, Friday 2:30. The Baptist Woman's Society will meet at the church Thursday evening. A pot-luck suiqier, to which the \V W. G. girls will be guests, will be held at 6:30 o’clock. At 7:30, o’clock a program will be given and the pule li. will be invited to attend. A pagent, written' by Miss Vivian Thomas and staged at the Franklin Baptist Assembly, wil be presetned at the meeting Thursday night. Mrs. C. E. Bel! will be in charge of thb program. A delicious basket dinner was enjoyed Sunday, at Sun Set park southeast of Decatur, by Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Thieme and daughters, Betty and I’iorvn<e;>.Mi«s Esther and Louisa Rall--fr- HP ar Reinkiug,-ol Uhhhs~u>wiiship, and Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Buechner, cf Convoy, Ohio. The T-idfes Aid Society of the Methodist church -will meet Friday afternoon at 2:30. o’clock in the church parlors. A good attendance is desired. The Kirkland Woman’s Club will entertain all school teachers of Kirkland township in the new gymnasium and community buiding this evening. Tlo Root Township Home Economic Club wHl„not jmeet this weekA poultry demons'ration is being given on the Gandy farm near Fort Wayne and a number of the members wish to attend. The club will meet on Thursday, Septemlrer 2#, at the. home of Mrs. Florence Moses and Mrs. Johana Kitson will assist. A new millinery lesson will be given and all members are urged to be present. o Personals c. P. Heekathorn. who has been reading on a farm two miles east of Decatur, has purchased the Jefferson lunch room in Berne from Hosea K Martz. Mayor George Krick will speak at a meeting of the Berne Chamber of Commerce to be held n the third "Monday in October. Miss Winoma Everett and Fritz Steinhoff spent Sunday evening with the Lester Everett family near Mon roe. The Misses Mary Noll, Violet Neireiter. Dan Nelreiter and Gerald Aspy attended the Monroeville street fair Saturday night. Mrs w a. Keubler returned yesterday from Fort Wayne, where she joined on a motor trip to Detroit, Michigan. Judge ayii Mrs. W. J. Vesey of Fort Wayne visited here last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Edwards and Mr. ami Mrs. ,|. s. Fc’ersOT. have returned from a motor trip to Bloomington and Indianapolis. Mr. an<l Mrs. C. A. Dugan and daughter returned last evening from a motor trip t u Niles and Benton Harbor, Michigan. Miss Bessie Gates has returned from a visit at her home in Blue Creek township and a picnic at W **—hire. f ' A. Dugan of the First National bank will go to Indianapolis this even-

ing to attend tho state bankers convent lon. A. R. Holthouse was better toifay than for several days and it is believed he will soon be able to resume his duties at this office. Attorney H. B. Heller attended to Business in Indianapolis yesterday. Fred Years of Wells county has purchased 350 acres of land near Sturgis and will start a muskrat ranch. — PLANE CRASHES, KILLINC TWO MEN: 32 STILL IN RACE ICONTINI El) FROM PAGE ONE) said, took up aviation six years ago and became a reserve officer at Kelly Field, Texas, a year ago. He later became a tost pilot for the Buhl factory at Marysville, Mich. He was unmarried. Iladike was said to have been a motor expert for the Wills St. Clair automobile and to have joined the Buhl concern in 1925. He begged for permission to go as a passenger-me-chanic in the plane today. He was married but had no children. By Paul W. White (U. P. Staff Correspondent. Roosevelt Field. N. Y., Sept 20—, (United Press)—Fifteen planes, con stituting the entries in class A. of the New Yolk to Spokane air I>erhy, sailed westward at Daybreak today, expecting to arrive tomorrow night in Spokane, Wash., more than 2,000 miles away. One after the other the many-col-ored craft, drawn wing to wing at the starting line, sped down the Roosevelt field i uuway and climbed Into the damp morning skies. The sun appeared during the 15 minutes necessary for the takeoffs. It was a firey orange yellow and brightened what had been a dull and ieaden dawn. The first plane. O Buhl Airster piloted by Richard Hudson of Marysville. Michigan., shot down the runway at precisely- 7 A. M. after the race had been postponed for a half hour because of fog over Long Island and New Jersey. Then with never a slip the other entrants responded to the starters flag at regular intervals until at 7:15 A. M. Robert Flagg of Concord, N. H., whose Waco whirlwind was last in line speeded into the west. Emil Bui gin, piloting a Sikorski Oriole, enc ntered motor trouble after lie had been in flight a short time and returned to nearby Curtis field at Sila A. M. He said he would continue if he could repair his plane. Os the 100 spectators who gathered to watch the start most were interested in two planes, A Liard Whirlwind piloted by E. E. Ballough of Chicago and a Travelair stith G. W. O'Donnell at the stick, one of the Passengers in the Ballough craft was Chai les Dickinson. 69-yeai-oltl wealthy Chicagoan who has been flying for 17 years. Planes Leave Chicago Municipal Airport, Chicago, Sept. 20 — (UP) —Facing much more favorable weather than was experienced yesterday in their flight from New York Class B. entries in the transcontinental Air Derby to Sopkane left today for St. Paul, the first of four stops on the second leg of the flight. Although rain fell in the early morning, the sky was almost clear at daylight when the first of the machines, got away. All twelve of the planes which remained in the race got into the air at intervals of about one min-' ute without difficulty. The Eagle Rock bi plane of Leslie .Miller, Des Moines, la. was the first! to leave. Miller took off at 5:39 A. M. central time. The ethers left in the order in which they landed yesterday. Five minute stops were to be made at St. Paul, Minn., Fargo, N. D. and Bismarch, N. D. The overnight stop was at Glendive, Mont, from there tho machines will leave Wednesday morning for Spokane. It appeared improbable that as large a percentage of the survivors would be forced to discontinue the race to-1 day er tomoiiow as were left behind ou the lii.it leg yesterday. Thirteen of the 25 planes to leave Roosevelt field, N. Y. did not reach Chicago because . of violent headwinds, tog and rain. | Four planes in the class B race arrived here this morning from Bryan, O. where they ha dremained overnight. and three of them took off for St. Patil. The fourth withdrew. , All the/pilots said it was bitterly cold in the air, and they borrowed and bought all the extra clothes they could find at the field.

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GET LETTER FROM NIECE IN CHINA Mr. and Mrs. M. Kirsch Hear From Miss Esther Sellemeyer, A Missionary Mr. and Mrs. M. Kirsch, of this city, have received an interesting letter from their niece, Miss Esther Selle meyer, former Decatur young woman, who is a missionary from the Reformed church to China. The letter was written on August 26, while Miss Sellemeyer was in Shanghai. Miss Sellemeyer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Sellemeyer of CalKortia have not heard from her since last May, although as she states In the letter to her uncle and aunt here, she has written to them since then. The letter received here is as follows; 54 Gram. Load Dear Aunt Mandy Shanghai, China and Uncle Matt:— Aug. 26, 1927. Your letter of June 23rd reached me about three weeks ago since there is a fast boat (the one I sailed on ten years ago when I first came to China) scheduled to sail tomorrow ftor Vancouver. I shall try and get an epistle off to you in that consignment of mail. I had hoped to get a letter off to the folks, also, but it must be in the post office by six o’clock and since it is four p. m. now, I am afraid I won't make it. In view of the fact, that the folks have had a letter from me more recently than you have, I’ll write to you this time. Probably you can forward this to them to read, though they ought to know almost everything that I Intend to say. You say you are kept in the dark as to the actual situation out here Well, so are we, things change over night and no one can prophesy what will happen fro m one day to the next. What I write you now, may not be true when this letter puts out to sea,( about two weeks ago, nobody dreamed that the Nationalist government was on the verge of a collapse, but one morning we read that the leader, Chiang kai Shek, had fled to Ningpo, and all his staff had resigned, with that the northern troops who iiad been steadily driven back for three months, made one sweep for Nanking and occupied the cily within a few’ days, and the Nationalists gave up everything they had won since the bdJf’th'ffTffg ’Of"Xpril, and so it goes. As you know by now, the new boys school building at Shenehow,. costing Mexican SIOO,OOO including e"quip meat, was burned to the ground by soldiers of the radical wing of the Nationalist forces. All of our buildings were looted clean, so that there is absolutely not o(ie thing left. Our Chinese pastor wrote to us Here ju Shanghai that when we came back we would have to bring with us everything, even a needle. Our cook wrote, that our residence was looted so tliorniigt'ii’. that it looked HOW as if it had be >n scrubbed with wateK if this figure of speech might be tak en literally, I would be glad that the spring house cleaning had been at tended to. But unfortunately he meant, that there was nothing left but the four walls and the roof. They even removed all hardware, such as locks, hinges, etc. Screens, window panes and electric fixtures. These things were all sold tor what they could get. Thus the windows of the house are gone, and the doors have all been taken down for their hinges and locks. Consequently, the interior of the house is exposed to the wind and rain so that the floors wil! be rotted out in many places before we can get back. What they couldn't use. they destroyed or bunned. They burned all of our books, both English and Chinese. This to me, is my greatest loss. 1 had built up an expensive library. The consignment of furniture that 1 send out from Decatur when I was there on furlodgh, to- | gether with the dishes, porch swing, tools, and what not were all taken. I saved all my clothing, bedding, table linen and silverware. These I brought with me in three trunks, one full size and two half 1 also brought along a few of my most precious books. My diplomas, too, are most likely, decorating the guest room of some Chinese general. The hand paitned pictures that mother gave me from homo also went the way of all things. | But when I think that many, many missionaries escaped with only a suit case or the clothes they had on their backs. I consider myself most fortunate indeed. 1 have not yet found out J what happened to our Deleo engine. ■ Before leaving Shenehow, I dismantled it and hid some of the smaller and moie important parts in tho.girls school safe to make sure that the I ! Chinese would not be able to run the plant. But alas, the safe was knock-' ed to pieces with sledge hammers after four days of steady pounding and . its contents were stolen. All of the

porcelain shades, bulbs and break* i able electric fixtures In our house, I I hid In a blind closet under the stair- 1 way. I haven’t heard whether those , things are still there or not. When I think of our lovely new home, t lie 1 Delco plant and all, 1 get pretty slek.| The Deleo plant worked perfectly from the first day we started the eu- ! glne, and we" had electricity every] night from that time until wo had to ( leave, which was a little over a year, | ( But we have learned anew what , Christ said in tho sermon on tho. Mount, ’’lay not up for yourselves' treasures upon earth, where moth and i rust doth corrupt, and where thieves] break through ami steal: but lay up j for yourselves treasures in heaven.” When leaving ghonchow it was hard to know whether the things we left were safer, than the things wo took , with hs, or whether It would be safer ( the other way around. We had to go t through the bandit country all tho . way to Chengteii, and it we were I robbed on the way, we would loose’ everything we took with us. We were] between the Devil ami the deep blue 1 sea so to speak. But 1 packed my,' trunks on the assumption that a bird! In the hand is worth two in a bssh ’p and so my most valuable things i ' have with me. Our mission will receive no insur- 1 anoe on the burnt buildings and hope I of securing any of the stolen equip-! 1 meats of the other buildings is very]' scarce. As for the missionaries, we 1 are accepting no indemnities for our.' losses. After all, the native Chris- ! tians in China have suffered much 1 wores than the foreigners, for in I many places they have been rebbed of all their possessions, many of their homes have been burned, they have been beaten and persecuted, and ini few instances have even been killed. I However, they have remained faith-1 ful to their Savior in great majorities, j and are proving to their people that the religion of Jesus Christ has something in it, which makes men ’ willing to suffer for it and so, al-1 ready, revivals are taking place in i ail parts of China. To this situation,' our own Shenehow is not an excep- 1 tion, for letters from there tell us ' that the congregation is flourishing ] as never before. As soon as the i American consul considers it safe for < us to return, we are going back. Wo ] had hoped to get started by Septem- ( ber, but now it looks as though we 1 won’t get away before November. < All of our work will have to be reor- i ganized to meet the present situation,! but neither the board nor we are expecting to do anything else but to continue the work. At present 1 am living with Miss. Georgia C. Weist of the Evangelical Mission in Shenehow, her home is in Findlay, Ohio. Some of the Evangel-, ical folks in Dezatur should know of, her. We have a living room, a bed-] room and a kitphen here at 51 Ave. I Road and we are housekeeping and doing our own work. Besides this we are studying Chinese, attending classes at the language school and going to all conferences on Christian work { in China, that we hear of, thus we] are trying to work out future policies for our work, get a little more "gift of Chinese gab,” and incidentally improve our time. I also carry on qrtito ■„ n extensive correspondence between heie and Shenehow so as to keep in] touch with our work as closely as possible. 1 was in bed with Sciatica for a stretch of ten days since being in - Shanghai, but now that the thermometer hovers around the 100 mark Such Flavor as this comes only in real .JFT Quaker THE price you pay for substitutes is the same as for the genuine Quaker Oats. The difference is in the flavor. And flavor, above all things, is important in oats. That rich and toasty Quaker flavor is the result of some 50 years’ milling experience. Once you taste it, you are spoiled for ordinary oats. That is why millions demand the Quaker brand—why you should accept no other. Quaker milling, too, retains much of the “bulk” of oats. And that makes laxatives less often needed. Protein, carbohydrates, and vitamincs and “bulk” are thus combined to make Quaker Oats an excellently “balanced” food. Get Quaker today. Grocers Lave twu kinds: Quick Quaker, which cooks in 2% to 5 minutes, and Quaker Oats. Quick Quaker

my rheumatics Is gone. My tonsils have been acting up again, so that 1 had to have my thtoat burned out with acid twice a week for a month. The process of burning was painful and I suffered much, hut uni alright now again. Must close now ami hurry to the postoffice. Hope this find you al) we,l, Remember me to those who u.sk about me and give my love to the relatives, of course keeping a goodly share of that commodity for yourselves. Ever so much love, ■ ESTHER. Man Lives Blood To Save Life Os Friend Greenfield, Ind., Sept. 20.—(INS)— A pint and a half of blood, given by his friend, Paul Hawkins, has saved the life of A. B. Van Dyke, of this city, according to physicians. Booths and stands are now being erected at Bluffton foi the annual’ street fair to be held next week. J. F. Arnold made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. The work of teai mg up the tracks of the old Fort Wayne and Decatur traction is moving right along and will bo completed wtlhin a week or two. The copper wire and the rails have been sold and Mr. Arnold has a deal on the disposal of the bridges. He is selling ties out at five cents each. i? i? 4? in If 1 Why Look Dragged Out Thin folks who are weakened and run down and who want to build themsqfves up with firm flesh need to do something to tone and strengthen the Mood. The best way to accomplish this is through the use of Burke’s Cod Liver Oil and Iron, in sugar coated form. Be sure to specify Burke's in order to secure a full 18 days' treatment for SI.OO. Guaranteed to benefit or money refunded. —Callow & Kohne. '

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Courts Refuse To Stop Prize Fight Chiougo, Sept 20— 4INS) —Federal and state court today refused to interfer with the DempseytTunney world heavyweight title bout in Soldiers Field here Thursday night. Judge George A Carpenter, in Federal Court, ruled out a petition of the Rev. Elmer Williams, who sought fin injunction io stop the bout on the grounds such a contest desecrated the field which is dedicated to American war dead. Judge Harry Fisher, In Superior — ——" -

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I court, contlnui'd Indefinitely a hearing ; on the petition of the Uolesuim Club of Chicago. Tho Club claimed a contract with Jack Dempsey calling tor his services before be fought Tunney ’! or any other boxer here. The continuance attouiatieally for estailed any Issuo of a writ before tho ■ fight unless the court calls a hearing, I | Or— ————— t ] Farmers fear a seed corn shortage next spring and many are gathering ' hard roasting ears now and letting 1 them dry out. It is claimed this wil! | grow as well as corn ripened in tho I I regular way. - - — — —-—