Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1927 — Page 3

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CLUB CALENDER Thursday « So cba Rae Hamberger Fry and : M Picnic. 4 IB Phoebe Bible class—M. F. Worthjfl- man home, 7:30 p. m. S Christian I, A. S. —William Teeple H home. ' » Triangle Club of Christian church 3 —Mrs. Andy Artman, 7 P. M. |S Baptist Woman’s Society pot-luek 9 supper, 6:30 P. M„ public program 9 7:30 P. M. at church. Friday ' m. F Ladies Aid Society—Church ■3 Parlors, Friday 2:30. Tuesday Historical club opening. Mrs. Roy I Runyon, 6:30 p. m. The .Moose Legionnaires will tneet ! a t s o’clock tonight at the Moose home' in this city. All Members are urged to attend the meeting. The Eastern Star lodge will meet I at 7:30 o’clock tonight in its rooms at the Masonic hall. All members are urged to attend. The Civic Section of the Woman’s Club will hold an important meeting in I the Public Library at 7 o'clock Friday evening. All members of the section are urged to be present. The opening of the social nights of the local Council of the Catholic Ladies of Columbia, which was held in the Knights of Columbus Hall, Tuesday evening at seven o'clock was enjoyed by a large number of members and their guests. At promptly Seven o'clock, the members with their respect fve guests were ushered to the hail which was artistically decorated with the emblems and colors of the local council, and there they were served with a delicious two-course pot luck supper. Following the luncheon, tables wete arranged for Five Hundred, and Rhum, high score in Five Tttndred being held by Miss Helen Gass. She was awarded the guest prize. Members holding high scores " 1: " »♦.. ■ 1 "I-- V - “ c.i.i, west" W 1 c;-!rc-.nr very beautiful prizes. Mrs. H. G. Meyers, was awarded prize in Rhum. The Committee in charge were Mesdames Jos. Lose, chairman, Vincent Bormann Frank Leichty, Tom Leonard, Clem Kortenber. Misses Winifred Kitson, Genevieve Kitson, and Virginia Laurent. A shower in honor of Miss Francis Meyers was given last night by Miss Berneta Tanvas, at the Tanvas home in this city. Decorations were carried cut in yellow and white colors. Bunco was played, at which gif£B were awarded to Esther Deßolt, Margaret Meyers and Gladys Peterson, who in turn presented them to the bride-elect. After presenting Miss Meyers with many beautiful gifts, a two-course luncheon was served. The Kirkland Ladies’ Club will give a pie social Monday evening September 26 on the Kirkland high school grounds. Other refreshments also' will be served. Everyone is cordially invited. The Historical club of this city will hold i s fortieth annual fall opening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Runyon. Tuesday night, September 27, at 6:30 o’clock, with a pot-luck supper for the members and their husbands, it was announced today. All members are- asked to bring their own table service. 0 Personals Dr. and Mrs. Roy E. Goldner, of Lansing are visiting Dr. Goldner's parents Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Goldner, of Preble. Attorneys Dore R. Erwin and Edward Bosse attended to business at Van Wert yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lower motored to Indianapolis where they will attend the state bank meeting, returning home tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. John Everett and Mr. and Mrs. Cal Peterson who have enjoyed a two weeks outing at Kelley's Island,*will return home tomorrow. Dore B. Erwin Is in ludianapollu today to attend a meeting of the Pythian Home committee. They will make arrangements at this time for the opening of the new state home and adept rules and regulations for the manago- , I . r kF. •- r

ment thereof. F. M. Schirmeyer and IT. B. Heller attended to legal business nt Fort Wayne. Mrs. J. W. Tyndall and Mrs. Dan 11. Tyndall visited in Fort Wayne. .1. H. Carmody has returned from a , bustnemXtrip to 'Toledo ifnd Detroit. Gus I »ut st, of Bluffton, is here to 1 make his annual distribution cf ala- ; manacs. A. R. Holthouse continues to show after a week's illness 1 and is expeeed to be out in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krick are visiting in Berne. The Erie Better Bull Special will be October 5. The train will ccnsist'of four cars of Holstein, Jersey, Guerni sey and Ayshire bulls with exhibits i from Purdue and from the agricultural department at Washington. Coun'ity Agent Musche is the chairman in 1 charge of the meeting here. Superintendent J. D. French has announced the list of judges for the educational exhibit at the Bluffton street fair next week. Miss Catherine Martin of this city will judge the art and drawing exhibits, Marion Wilson of Montpelier the manual training. Maynard Hetrick of Berne the bookkeeping, Mrs. E. W. Jeffry of Berne, home economics. Mrs. Ruth Roberts of Warren maps and penmanship. Postal caid invitations for a dance . to be given at the Decatur Country Club tomorrow evening have been issued. Tickets are one dollar per couple. 1 A bridge party will be held at the club next Wednesday afternoon. Herman and Yager are in 1 Grand Raipids, Michigan, today on 1 business for the Yager Brothers’ ■ Furrt ture store, of this city. ■ Dr. Glen Neptune and France I Conter motored to Van Wert Ohio, ■ Wednesday for a round of golf.

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fStiik t orn Barer Control Officials To Conduct • Two Meetings Here > Due to an insistent demand made , upon the county-agent's office by farmers who desire information as to the corn borer clean-up regulations, arrangements have been made for the holding of two meetings in Adams ■ county. The primary object of these i meetings wil be to demonstrate to . farmers how corn may be cut to conI form with the 4-ihch stubble regula- > lions. However, a representative of . the state c m borer control office at i Auburn will attend, and answer any . questions from those present. The first meeting will be held in a ; corn field opposite the north buildings i of the Fonner Stock Farm, Its miles north of Decatur, on state road No. 27. This meeting will be held at 1:30 o' > clock P. M., Wednesday, September - 28. The corn borer control officials will 1 demonstrate the low cutting of corn ] wjjh a corn binder equipped with low - cutting attachment. The binder and tractor to, pull it is furnished by them. In addition, two simple and. cheajjly • constructed sled cutters wil be demon- - strated. The seeznd demonstration meeting , will be held at 1:30 o’clock P. M., - Thursday October 6on the farm of Ed- - win H. Gilliom located one mile I north of Berne, just west of the state - road. Everyone interested in corn borer control is cordially invited to attend. The corn borer officials state they will attempt to answer all questions asked as well as explain any sitfacts that all edfmoE E E E EE nations which may arise. Due to the fact that all of Adams county will be expected to conform to the clean-up ( regulations by May 1, 1928, it behoo.ves every,fanner to do this best to attend. o IMAGE OF VIRGIN APPEARS ON WALL i . I (CONTINUED FROM F..GE ONE) : men, doctors, new, papermen, even children, visiting the, home have re- ■ ported seeing the outline. Father Cox, of St. Patrick’s church i here, after looking on the outline, stated that no one could deny the - image had appeared. 1 o— Error the World Makes We put too much faith in systems ! and look too little to men.—Benjamlu ’ Disraeli. « i ' .1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1927,

Relief Is Rushed To Survivors Os Fatal Fire Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 22. —(INS) Plunging northward through th*, bitter cold of early winter, a lone doctor with emergency materials was flying over wilderness wastes today. carrying relief to the survivors of the tragic Beauval Catholic Mission conflagration tihat took a toll of twenty Eves, nineteen of them Indian children. I First news of the disaster reaching I Prince Albert, Sask, sent Dr. A. Amyot of Regina, winging his way northward with the hope of saving a priest ' whose burns received in an hour of , ■ hero'tun may prove fatal. With the nineteen children who i perished, one sister of the order of | grey nuns was said to have died in > this outlying mission on the shores -‘of Lac la Plonge. | Word of yie horrible night f|re was brought out of the interior by i a party of woodsmen who had travel- . ed by launch to secure help. . • Their account of the disaster was meagre. The mission, one of the . oldest in the north, »a» a frame f ttincture and the fatal fire Monday . night was the third in three years. , o Get the Habit —Trane at Home, It Pay*

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ADVANCE OF COBN BOBERS RETARDED Spring Campaign Against Pest Checks Spread Materially Washington, Sept. 22. — (INS) The $10,000,000 spring campaign agiilnsi the European corn borer has retarded the borer’s rate of increase, the 'department of agriculture announced j today. Though there was an increase of 50 per cent in borer populations in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania, it compares favorably with the increase of 400 per cen'i last year when Wiere was no contort campaign. “Had there been no campaign this I ! spring, judging from the 1926 in- I crease, we might now find about 32 I instead of 13 horers per 100 stalks,” I said Dr. A. F. Woods, in general I 1 charge of the borer campaign. The I corn borer committee today began a | ;hree-day tour of the borer infested I territory in Ohio, Michigan and OnI tario.

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