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CLUB CALENDER Saturday Cafeteria supper — Zion Reformed : church. 5 to 7 p. m. Monday Woman's Club Federation Night, 7:46 P- M. Research Club, Mrs. C. C. Pumphrey Tuesday Kirkland Ladies Club—Kirkland H. S. building, 1 P. M. Rebekah Masquerade and pot-luck supper for Rebekahs and Odd Fellows I. o. 0. F. hall 7:30 p.m. five Hundred Club, Mrs. Herman Glllig. 7:30 P. M. Mary and Martha Class of M. E. S. 8. Mrs. Homer Lower, 7:30 P. M. Rebecca Lodge, Masquerade Party, Oud Fellows Hall. Wednesday St. Vincent De Paul Society—2:3o p. m. Historical Club, Mrs. Harl Hollingsworth Shakespeare Club, Mrs. Hattie Obenauer Christian Ladies’ Aid Society Masquerade Social, Mrs. Noah Mangold Thursday Phoebe Bible Class, Reformed S. S. Mrs. Dallas Goldner, 7:30 P. M. W. C. T. U. 'Address, Christian Church, 8:00 P. M. 0. E. C., Masonic Hall, 7:30 pm. Friday Halloween Party, Country Club 6:30 I’. M. Monmouth High School Festival, Monmouth H. S. W. H. M. S. TO HOLD ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE The Woman s Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church will hold a Group meeting at Bluffton, Friday, October 28. It will be an all-day session and a pot-luck dinner will be served at the noon hour. All local members are requested to make plans to attend this group meeting. Because of the sessions of the Northern Indiana Conference, wbieh will be held in Pot Hand on November 3 and 4. the regular meeting of the W. H. M. S. has been postponed until November 11. The annual rummage sale of the Missionary Society will be held November 12, 19 and 26 in the basement of the M. E. church. The rummage sale will be open on Saturdays, only. CIVIC CLUB SPONSORS FRUIT DRIVE The Civic department of the Woman's Club will sponsor a fruit and vegetable drive which will be conducted next week. The drive will include all of Adams County, the fruit and vegetables to be presented to the Adams County Memorial hosiptal. This is aar annual affair. The Mary ami Martha Class of the Methodist Sunday school will meet Tuesday evening, at seven-thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. Homer Lower, 325 North Third street. All members are asked to come masked. Mrs. Herman Gilllg will entertain the members of the Five Hundred Club at her home on West Marshall street Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The Woman’s Chib will meet Monday evening in the Library. This will l>o Federation night. Reports of the delegates to the State Convention at Terre Haute will be given. A musical program is also being arranged for the evening and an opportunity will be given all members who have uot as yet paid their dues, to do so. The Phoebe Bible class of the Reformed Sunday school will be entertained at Uv home of Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Goldner next Thursday evening at seven-thirty o’clock. Mrs. Charles Brcdbeck will be the assisting hostess. All members and their husbands are asked to come masked. ■Mis. Mary Sibbitt of Kansas, National Temperajice worker will speak under the auspices of the local W. C. T. U. at Chustian church next Thursday October 27, at eight o’clock. Come and be informed on •he subject. The Rbbakahs will hold a masquerade party and pot-luck at the 1. O. O. b ■ hall Tuesday evening at 7.30 o’clock for all Rebekahs and Odd Fellows. The Kirkland Ladies Club will hold u regular meeting in the Krikiand high school building Tuesday afternoon, starting at 1 oclock. There will be

important meeting ntholasSEETAOl important business to transact and all members pre urged to bu present. This will be the last meeting before Achievement Day. Members are re- 1 quested to come early. SENIOR C. E. SOCIETY HOLDS MASQUERADE PARTY The Senior C. E. Society of the Zion Reformed church enjoyed a Halloween and Masquerade party, Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Worthmfin on Sixth street. The home was decorated in Halloween colors and fall leaves. The guests came masked 1 and after a merry hour of fun and mt- ■ masking, games were indulged in. For being the most accurate in pinning the 1 eye in the pumpkin, Dorothy Spuller and Leia Yost were awarded the prizes 1 Forty-two members were in attend- 1 dance. Refreshments of sandwiches, .candy, coffee and pumpkin pie with whipped cream were served after tho J games. The assisting hostesses were: Eleanor Reppert, Frances Limenstahl, 1 Lorena Reppert, and Matilda Selle- ! meyer. BEN HURS ENJOY MASQUERADE Approximately seventy-five members of the Ben Hur were in attendance, I Friday evening at their annual Hallo-! ween party and festival. The grand | march of the masqueraders was the first feature of the evening. Misses Marcella Brandyberry and Martha Moser were awarded the prizes for the! best costumes. A musical program was ( then rendered which consisted of a piano duett by Evelyn and Mary Kohls, | two piano solos by Berniece Closs, two readings by Mrs. Mary Blossom, a pia-i no solo by Miss Mildred Akey. Games' were then played. A fish pond furnished entertainment, also a candy booth, j Refreshments of coffee and sandwiches were served. The entertaining com ! was composed of Mrs. Mary Artman, p Mis. Win. Thornton, and Miss Fern Hoeneisen. The next social meeting' of the Ben Hurs will be a hard time, social, which will be held November 4. The hostesses for that meeting will be Mrs. Nellie Wise, Mrs. Rosa Venis, | Mrs. Wm. Thornton, and Mrs. Mary Blossom. RETURN FROM FEDERATION MEETING Mrs. John Tyndafi and Mrs. Charles Dugan, delegates from the Woman's Club and Shakespeare Club ta the Indiana State Federation of Woman's Clubs which was held in Terre Haute ! October 18, 19 and 20. returned home last evening. They report the t bffreution ay v.ciy succesful as well as in-' ,teresting and entertaining The Con-j vention closed with a banquet at the Hotel Deming, at which three hundred women were in attendance. MRS BAKER ENTERTAINS CARPE DIEM Mrs. Baker was hostess Friday to 1 Carpe Diem Club, Friday evening, to the members of the Carpe Diem Club at her home on Sixth street. The house was deccrated for the occasion in Halloween colors. After the business session, progressive Bunco was played. High, score prize was won by Mrs. Albert Beery, the consolation prize by Mrs. Ralph Evans and the guest prize 'by Mrs. Grant Fry. Refreshments were served at a late hour at small tables. Guests, other than the club meiqbers were: Mrs. Charles Brodbeck, Mrs. Carl Shafer, Mrs. Grant Fry, and Julia [ Rose Passwaters. The next meeting will be held in two weeks with Mrs. Floyd Enos. I The Young Matron’s Club will hold a masquerade party, Tuesday evening at six-thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. Albert Miller. Every member Is 1 urged to attend. The Union Township Woman's Club , will meet with Mis. William Miller and Mrs. Ami Miller, Wednesday after- ; noon, at 1:30 o'clock. Members will be* asked to respond to roll call by re- ’ pealing some stanza or verse which they learned in childhood. Everyone is asked to. bring their sewing baskets. Visitors are welcome. i Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bleeke and family 1 entertained at dinner Thursday even- * ing for Mrs. Mary Rungs, Mr. afld Mrs. 4 William Dueiike and children Burton ! ami Kenneth, of St. Louis, and Mr. and ' Mis. Lewis Gick, of Fort Wayne. i I Mrs. Urcile Chase went to Marion, ( today where she will visit over the r week-end with her friend, Miss Lucile v Buhler. _ , 1

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————f" ' —- ” - —f Personate Mrs. Fred King and daughter, Kathryn. went to Celina, Ohio, Friday to visit over the week-end with Mrs. King’s brothers and sisters. Mr. King will spend Sunday there, also. E. Burt Lenhart is building a five [room modern house on North Eighth street, at the rear of his own residence whioh is located at the corner of Mon. roe and Eighth streets. The new house is nearing completion. Word has been received here that a son, Richard Eugene, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Don Bradley, of Peoria, Illinois, former residents of Decatur. Mr. Bradley formerly was employed as a linotype operator for the Daily Democrat. —o- -' - Earl Carroll Returns To Theatre On Broadway New Yoik. Opt. 22.—(INS) —Back to the city he left four mouths ago as a risoner of the federal government, Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, arrived home shortly before noon today. Quiet, reserved and occupied with the sole though of "putting myself right with Broadway," the producer .stepped from the train as it pulled into tho Pennsylvania station and .headed straight for his theatre where the famous wine bath party, which caused his committment to prison on a perjury charge, was staged. "It is good to be back,” Carroll said as he left the train. “Um going right to my theatre. I want to see if everything is the same.” — o— Patrick Cardinal O’Donnell Dies At Age Os 71 Years London. Oct. 22. — (INS) — Patrick Cardinal O'Donnell, former rector of the University of Ireland, is dead at the age of 71, according to a Central News dispatch from Belfast today. He was created a cardinal in 1925. Cardinal O'Donnell was born at Kilraine, in county Donegal, and was educated at the Catholic University in Maynooth. He was appointed Bishop oF Raphoe in 1888 and from 1922 to 1924 was coadjutor to the archbishop of Armagh, primate of Ireland. He was one of the most distinguished and beloved prelates in Ireland. One of his last acts before his final illness was the circulation of a letter asking the TrfstT" pbople to unite in brotherly love and to forget their hatreds. —o British Naval Forces Clash With Chinese Hong Kong, Oct. 22. —(INS) —Further conflict between British naval forces and Chinese armed bands occurred today when the warship Curlew was object of a rifle and machine gun attack from the shore, forty-one miles above Wuiru. The Curlew letaliated by firing her whole battery v.i ,l.<- attackers. o Arthur Sapp Returns From Trip To Europe Huntington, Oct. 22.—When Arthur H. Sapp, president of Rotary Interna tional. arrives in Huntington Saturday after a lengthy tour in Europe he will find a stack of mail several feet high waiting to greet him, according to his office secretaries. Mr.] Sapp left the United States September 15 ami during his stay in Europe has visited Italy, Austria, France, ] Germany, Denmark, Norway and: Great Bi-itlain, wjiere he met with ■ Rotary officials and formed new clubs. , -—o — Railroad Detective Is Killed By Switch Engine Indianapolis, Oct. 22—(UP) —Police! and Railway officials today are mak-1 ing an investigation of the death of Ambrose Banta, detective sergeant for the Big Four railroad, who was killed last night when run down by a switch engine. There were no witnesses to the accident. Banta is believed to have be6n walking along the tracks when the ! engine backed into him. Banta had j lived here only a short time. He leaves a wife and five children at Covington. —. o ■—"T Traction Car Hits Truck Near Hartford City Today Bluffton. Oct. 22.—UNS) —Verne! VValser, of near Bluffton, was injured this morning when a north bound car on the I. U. T- traction line struck i a cream truck belonging to the Hoosier Condensed Milk company, which he was driving, at a crossing three miles north of Hartford City: I Walser was taken to the Blackford County hospital at Hartford City, where It was believed his injuries were not serious. The truck was hurled about fifty feet.

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Zion Reformed Church Comer Third and Jackson Streets A. R. Fledderjohanu, Pastor We invite you to our regular routine of services tomorrow. Sunday school at 9:15. We had a fine attendance last Sunday even though we started an hour earlier, but from now on we must insist upon a better attendance. The best is none too good. The consecrated enlistment of every scholar w'ill make our school grow. Morning worship service at 10:.V) o’clock. Sermon subject, "What Manner of Persons Ought We to Bo?" We invite you to hear this message. The Official Board will have a short business meeting immediately after the morning service. Junior and Senior C. E. societies will meet at 6:15. These are helpful discussions and all the young people should make it a point to do their part. Evening service at 7 o'clock with a Psalm meditation. Your interest and presence at these services will i help both, the church and you. i Junior choir at 7 o'clock tonight i and Seniors meet at 8 o'clock. o Presbyterian Harry H. Ferntheil, Pastor "If you educate a man's mind and do not educate Ill's morals you have educated a menace." The Presbyter • ian church is prepared to do its share I to educate the morals of all those who care to take advantage of Christian ; education. There is no better time to start to Sunday school than right now. ] You will find classes in every depart 1 \ nient no matter how old or how young you are, boy, girl, man or woman. We invite you to our school. Juniors will meet at 9:00 Mrs. Lower i 1 and Mrs. Horton are the leaders. Church school 9:30 Mr. C. D. Teeple. I ■ superintendent. Re member there arc i four adult classes. You are welcome to • join any one of them. Morning worship at 10:30. I Children’s story sermon "The Sheet ' Dog ". Worship Sermon. "The Mystery oi ' Christianity”. i| The choir is rendering a valuable 'service at worship periods and adds much to the dignity of worship. Christian Endeavor at 6:00 P. M. Bob Cole is the leader. J Piaise service at 7:00 P. M. Sermon ’ "The Loneliness of Christ." You are invited to attend all of these I services, if you are a member it b your duty to attend, If a stranger we welcome you. Let us make these ser vices worthy of Christ our Saviour. o First Evangelical Church Ralph W-. Loose, Minister Last Sunday was a great Rally Day. Shall we not now make every Sunday a Red Letter day by every- ■ body in so Oar as possible striving to attend both the Bible Scliool ses I sion and the worshi p services of the i day? The Bible school meets at 9:15 followed by the worship service at 10:15. Mas. Tribbett will bring the morning message. In the afternoon at 2:36 there will ' be a service at. which Mrs. Tribbett will speak. Sick may be brought to jbe prayed for. In the evening also jat 7 00 she will bring the message, i This will probably be the last service .of this special evangelistic campaign. The offerings of the day will be tor the Evangelist. The E. L. C. E. will meet Sunday evening at 6:1.5; the leader is Miss Hester Martz. A full attendance is i desired. The Ladies' Aid will meet ; Thursday-afternoon at 2:00. The midweek meeb'ng for prayer ajid praise . is on Wednesday evening at 7:15. —o United Brethren Church Cecil R. Smith, Pastor Bible School at 9:15. O. I*. Mills, supt. Our classes are growing, but i we have room and really need you. I What do you think? Do you need the church? Morning worship at. 10:30 Sermon by the pastor. Help make this a worship service by bringing a good spirit with you. Come to help. / Christ, an Endeavor at 6 o'clock. Junior aaul Senior. I Evening services at 7 o'clock. The | pastor in charge. Wu want to urge j our folks to these services and extend an invitation to all strangers and visitors. If the church or pastor can be of any senvlue to you, be tree to call upon us. ' Your pastor has been attending tills' week a great congress o£ Young People’s work at Dayton, Ohio, where leaders were brought from ail parts of the United States to discuss and plan for the work. We shall in a

t short time test out some of the con- | elusions und findings of this congress in our local church. Next week at Imt'anapolis tho Adult Congress ( will be held and your pastor will ( attend u few days. —.— o First M. E. Church Ross W. Stoakes, Pastor Sunday School ,9:30 A. M. Morning hour of worship al 10:46. Junior church and Junior Epworth League, 10:45 A. M. under direction of Marcella Nelson and Mrs. Stoakes. ■ Intermediate EpwVth League at | 4 P. M. Eileen Burk, leader. Senior Epwortli League at 6 P. M Miss Helen Eady, leader. Preaching service at 7 pm. the past or in charge. ' " | The third quarterly conference tor the year will be held on Tuesday night This will combine the mid-week service and the quarterly official meeting. Dr. Warren W. Wiant, the district superintendent, will preside. — o Baptist Bulletin The program of the morning begins when interested folks awaken for the plan of the day then prepare to gather at the house of prayer and praise be ginn ng with the Bible school at 9:30. In the school an interesting program is always in vogue. Well trained and interested people, old and young, remain for the worship hour at 10:30. The subject for the message will be "The King announces liis Kingdom at hand". A splendid interest is indicated in these studies in the book of Matthew. The young people meet promptly at six o’clock. Martha Moser, leader. It Hs fitting and helpful to gather together in he house of worship at the close of the Lord’s Day. The service at seven o'clock. The subject of message will be "Too interested to eat". Always a welcome to meet with his group of worshipers. O. E. Miller, Pasor. o — Christian Church Harry Thompson Pastor Olin Baker Bible School Supt. Bible school session opens at 9:30 ■Communion and sermon at 10:30 Evening service at 7 P. M. Just one week from tomorrow will be Rally Day. Tile church needs you but not as much as you need the chunh. Better men than I have lost all while engaged in playing the games . Indiffeience, and NeglecL it is recognized as poor sportsmanship to engage in a game where all the ■chances ate against one. That is just . the kind of game we engage in, when ■ we turn our backs ou Christ and His church. I We invite everyone to attend the 0 services of the church. | o 8 Zion Evangelical Lutheran C | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church • Pai I W. Schultz, pastor German Service 9:30 J English Service 10:30 H Sunday School 9:30 I St. Marys Church j First mass, 5:00 a. m. J Second mass, 7:30 a.m. High mass, 9:45 a. m. . Baptismal servic?, 1:30 p. m. Prayer hour and benediction 2:30.11 Rev. J. A. Seimetz, pastor [ j Body Os Aged War Veteran i Is Discovered In Swamp j Indianapolis, Ind.. Oct. 22. — (INS) j —A swamp on the Harry Adams farm, ; a mile southwest of Maywood, today had yielded the body of William I Dazey, 85-year-old veteran of the ( Civil war, for whom a nationwide j . seal ch has been made since his dis- I appearance three months ago from his j home here. z i The old man had wandered into the ! swamp and lost his way, members of I the family believed. There was no [ evidence of violence. Adams had j taken off his coat and pants and made ? a pillow of them. His body was found j with the bundle under his head. There ■ was no evidence of violence. o J Henry .1. Allen Thinks Coolidge Will Be Drafted ! Washingion, Oct. 22. —(INS)-Heury I J. Allen, ex-governor of Kansas, still [i believes that “President Coolidge will j be di alled for tile nominal ion next ! year unless lie does something about | it." ! He made Illis statement at theij White House today in fam- of the I president's recent ■verbal lashing of I Sen. Fess, republican, of Ohio, and j others who have refused to accept as I fl .•'nal Mr. Coolidge's “do uot choose] 1 to run" announcement . j

Joey Ray, Noted Runner, Tries To Run Away From His Wife; Loses Race Gary, Ind. Oct. 22. — (INS)—Joey Ray, who has sprinted away from some of the world's best middle distance runners, was to face Judge C. E. Greenwald today to oppose his extradition to Chicago on charges that he ran away from his wife. The noted athlete, living with his parents here, was arrested late yesterday while at work in a Gary sheet mill. He refused to waive extradition rights. o — Blessed Sacrament Saved When Fire Destroys Church Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 22. — (INS> —When fire swept through St. Marys’

THE ADAMS Theatre SUN., MON., TUES, and WED.—Oct. 23-21-25-26 Matinee Sunday at 2 P. M. 1 John Gilbert, Renee \ Adoree, Tom O'Brien \ an( l K a rl Dane in 'A, BIG 4 Here at I;i -t is the pi' - that captured •’ ’ the heart of the world! , Not drama only rathyf V Lr 1 er Life — splend d, f ’ mean, funny, horrible, ugly, beautiful, heroic, A A"' rapturous! Five mil- / V lion people have march 1 - /. \ c d to Bee tL aU( * *’ * lits J’ just begun! THE MIRACLE FILM OF ' LOVE AND WAR! ALL SEATS... 50c The Original “Big Parade’’ Music Score Will be Played with the Picture! TONIGHT — “BORN TO BATTLE” with Bill Cody. A RipSnorting Western. ALSO—“TURKISH HOWLS” with Al Cooke and Kit Guard. tOc 20c 25c SHE® | THE CORT I ITd* LE ifi SUN DA Y and MON1) A Y Matinee Sundav at 2 P. M. Hi If Her Loves Were the Sensation of Paris, ijj yfi Her Greatest Love Will Thrill the World. CAMlLLE—Greatest of Lovers since the tfi SB world began!—Dumas’ classic drama has ue made her world-famous... .Now NORMA g TALMADGE’S tfi superb performance g in this sumptuous S screen production will make her Immortal! / EE /r I tfi Screen Story by (UE Fred de Gresac ’a dr’WBS.-’ • A JOSEPH M. J S 30 SCHENCK « ah presents wwk■ Ww I I ... Lfj j ADDED—A Good Comedy 15c, 35c Hij qffi TONI GH T — KEN MAYNARD in “THE RED RAIDERS.” A Western drama. Also Cornedv. q; L£ 10c 20c 25c g ,

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Roman Catholic church hern today, destroying the Interior of the structure, injuring three men and causing damage estimated at $150,000, the receptlcul containing the Blessed Sacrament was saved bv two curates and a policeman, who had entered tho Church at the risk of their lives. Into the furnace-like interior of the church crept Rev. James O’Connor and Rev. John McTigue, curates, and Patrolman Robert C. Dunigan, who crawled the length of the structure to Hie altar guided only by the light of tlie flame roaring around them. The three men found a blazing hole where File altar had been and some i distance awa> found the Blessed Sacrament. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pava