Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1927 — Page 3

iIj<EWS FROM BERNE —by— Ifcliss Helen Burkhalter au«l Mrn. J - ••■ Ainilt and fi.K Hcv. and Nirs. E. H. Baumgartner SK'dnnghtf'r and Mr. aixVmal Mrs Libman and family attended the ftiferal services of Mrs. Ruby Haley, Ki Portland. Sunday. Mrs. Haley K the wife of Rev. R. L. Haley, who K» II known in Herne, having preachthe local Evangelical church a Kndter of year ago. Hi daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs K>yd Schindler, Sunday. K[r. and Mrs. D. O. Teeple and son, were visitors at the home S.Mi'. and Mrs. W B. Lehman, Sunday. H) a. Baumgartner, of North Manvisited here with bls sister, Mary Opliger and other relatives Hpnday. Hlr. and Mrs. A. F. Vachon and two K daughters, Patricia and Betty tk,„. of Bluffton, were guests at the and Mrs. E. J. Schug home, SunHdr 1,11,1 Mrs - A - u - Hauge, of Elyria Kilo. Mrs. F. M. Reynolds and daughK< Grace and Ruth, of Montpelier, Ji and Mrs. F. O. Haecker. of Wells unty. Mrs. Clella Gottschalk and tighter, Mary Julia, Mrs. Vilas Haecf, and son Robert, were visitors at e home of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Haecr. Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Watt Ice, of Newcastle Baited Sunday at the homes of Mr. K‘l Mrs. Newton McClain, Mrs. Sam Ko and Mr. and Mrs. Clem Smith. Mi 5. Ice is a niece of Mrs. McClain aL a half sister of Clem Smith. Floyd ith, a brother to Clem Smith, of ■ontana. also visited with Mr. Smith an : other relatives here Sunday. Mr. Kd Mrs. Ice and Mr. Smith, of MonEtna, expect to leave in the near fttKre for Florida. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Otto Neuenschwander Kb family spent Sunday afternoon at ■to t Wayne, visiting relatives. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Amos W. Snyder and Lighters Maxine and Merdith visited Bensd at Rockford, Ohio, Sunday. I Coach Johnson and several of his Ssketball players and fans attended ie Kirkland-ock Creek game at Kirkinil Saturday night. A. W. Snyder, manager of the Berne j faulty Exchange Company, left MonBy morning for a week's business trip D various parts in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Habegger and falily spent the week-end at the home if Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Taylor at Jalantazoo, Michigan. Miss Sarah Jaumgartner accompanied them as far s Fort Wayne, where she visited fiends and relatives and Miss Suriltla tisen accompanied them as far as loshen, where she visited at the hornet f her sister, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Iprunger. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Amstutz went to Port Wayne on Saturday to hear the Joted evangelist, Rev. John Fleming, it the Nazerene church. Miss Mary Mm Norr accompanied them and will Work at the W. P. Stauffer home for t while. On their return Mrs. Fred AmRutz and daughter Marjory came with them to spend a week at the Carl Amitutz home. Mrs. N. G. Frankauser. who visited lore with her husband and old friends Hid relatives during the past two reeks, returned home Monday to Jerioio, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Frankhauser risited with relatives in Fort Wayne Sunday, from where she continued her :rip home Monday and Nicklaus is lack nt the proofreader's desk at the Witness. Mrs. Frankhauser has not ieen in Berne since 1915, when the fanily had moved to Ohio. B. P. Harris, of Portland, and aged father of Mrs. Charles Braun, was a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Braun, Sunday. The Misses Anna Ruth Hofstetter and Ruth Leichty were visitors at Fort Wayne Tuesday. Ernest Dro and Cleo Hartman were at Hartford City Tuesday attending to business matters. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Schug transacted business at Bluffton and Fort Wayne Tuesday afternoon and evening, and also visited with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Lehman returned to their home at Bluffton, Ohio, today after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Lehman here. Louis Habegger, Jesse Amstutz, Carl Smstutz and Clarence Reynolds motored to Lima Ohio, Monday night to hear the Bosworth evangelistic party. Mr. and Mrs. Ugo Nakada, Japanese who sang here this summer, were heard Tuesday evening from radio station KDKA, Pittsburgh. Mrs. A. C. Smith, wo has been sick with nephritis, is still about the same. She has been removed from her home to the home of Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Bixler. Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Arndt and daughter Dorotha motored to Elkhart Thursday, where Rev. Arndt preached Ihe funeral sermon of a young marvied man. who was a member of a congregation Rev. Arndt formerly served. Freeman and Miss Frances Burkhalter, and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Nabel and son Walter, and daughter Dora, were at Fort Wayne Tuesday evening to hear the Cleveland Symphony, which appeared at the Shrine Auditorium. Mr. and Mrs. Clovis Oberli were also there. 0 RET A HOME—Many families have good houses on account of easy payments. Only occasionally one can be bought. Now I have one to offer •ie rent at no more than cash price. Daniel N. Erwin, Phone 338 or 60. 273-3tc !

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GENEVA NEWS I Mr and Mrs. Wills Glendening, of I Fort Wayne, are the parents of a baby grl, born Wednesday morning. Mrs. Harry Lynch, of Fort Wayne, is visiting her mother, Mrs, Sophia Mattax for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. (). I). Arnold were at Decatur Tuesday afternoon Judge Mannix, of Greenville, was in Geneva looking after telephone business Tuesday. John Greene was in Fort Wayne the first part of the week. “Cy” Hale and Florence Striker surprised their friends by getting married Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock. They will be at home for a while with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Striker. The M. E. Ladies Aid was entertained in the church parlors by Mrs. Wm. Bradford ana Mrs. Raymond Filer About 35 were present and after the business session the guests were invited into the dining room where long table were set with snowy linen and silver and a very tempting lunch was served. A good time was had. Mrs. Geo. Schaefer is quite sick. L L. Mason is some better but is still very sick Mr. Ueber, of Fort Wayne, was in Geneva looking after business this week. Mrs. W. C. Glendening came home Tuesday from a short visit in Richmond. Miss Leah Banta came Wednesday to visit her sister, Mrs. Ralph Snyder. o Thurman Martz, Os Oklahoma, Visits Here Thurman Martz, a former Adams county boy, has returned for a short visit with relatives, after being absent for 22 years- Thurman is now located at - Dewey, Oklahoma where he has been employed by a large oil and gas company for the last nine years He has a large number of men working under his supervision. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. WMartz, of Berne, were greatly surprised when their son brought a win back with him. Mr. and Mrs.. Mart?, were married on November 4, and the motor trip back to Indiana constitutes their honeymoon The Martz family met at the G. W. Martz home in Berne last Sunday. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Martz, Mr. and Mrrt. Menlio Wittwer and daughter Marjorie, of Berne; Mr ami Mrs. Thurman Martz, of Dewey, Oklahoma Mr and Mrs. Ira Martz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Martz and family, of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. E. (’. Martz ami son Edward. Mr. and Mrs- Roy Runyon, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Fuhrman and family all of Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Martz received a number of beautiful and useful wedding gifts. They stated on their return trip to Oklahoma this morning, after spending the night with their brother, E. C. Martz and fam'lv, of this city. Thye expect to make a short visit at Gary as they pass through that city. Columbus—Two six-year-old boys i here went into business and became lost. They took flowers from graves in Garland Brock cemetery, tied them in bunches and started over the city selling theip at. five cents a bunch. Boy Scouts finally located ! the pair.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1927

FIRST PHOTO OF RUTH ELDER’S HUBBY

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Lyle Womak, husband of Ruth Elder, is here pictured-for first time as he reads cable from southern flying beauty telling of her reception in Canary Islands. Womak; is in real estate business in Panama. (International Newsreel)

World’s Shortest Inter-City Railroad Located In Indiana; Makes A Profit

Evansville, Ind., Nov. 19 —(UP) — One locomotive and a gasoline car furnish the motive power for the shortest inter-city railroad in the world. The line, which is privately owned, is known as the Ferdinand Railroad, and operates over six and one half miles of its own track between the villages of Ferdinand and Huntingburg. Snorting and tooting, the little engine, with one passenger coach ami freight car, puffs between the rolling green hills familiar to Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood, for this region is not far from Lincoln City, where the rail-splitter's-family ‘ squatted" after leav. ing their Kentucky home. It was in 1908 that the town of Ferdinand, composed chiefly of thirty German Catholics, feeling forlorn and isolated in its lack of cojnmuification with the outside world, decided to build its own railroad. Bonds were issued, stock sold to enterprising citizens and the/Ferdinand Railway Company incorporated for $49,000. Since that time it has operated at a profit, although Leonard Muller, general manager bemoans the increase in automobile traffic, and admits that it has cut down the revenue of the road. The Ferdinand school board makes good use of the baby railroad. The

board found it cheaper to send their children to Huntingburg high schools than to hire teachers. On its morning and evening run the Httle passenger coach is filled to overflowing with the students. <*IIBB r) — Public Health Nurse Service To Be Extended Indianapolis Nov. 19 (UP) Following a conference with Public Health Nurses of the State Health Department, Superintendent of Public Instruction Roy P. Wisehart announced that the Education Department would cooperate in extending public health nurse service in school districts throughout the state. In the current bulletin of Wisehart’s department it is pointed out that nurses can be obtained by an appropriation by the county council to-the local health officer or through county school trustees. The latter may employ her as a teacher of health and hygene, "Non-official" methods of Obtaining such nurses are listed as through Red Cross chapters and County Tuberculosi Associations. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pays

Sen. Robinson’s Wife Received Necklace i From Steve In 1921 Indtannpn! N’ v. 19 (VP)- It wa- uti imitation pt ,irl necklace D. (' Stephenson presented to Mrs. Robinson as a Christmas presen in 1924, according to a statement made l»y U, 8. Sen. Arthur R. Robinson yesterday. Robinson declared he made the statement to quiet rumors that a letter from his wife thanking the former klan dragon for a valuable gift ha<l been found in the "little black boxes" now under investigation; by the Marlon county grand jury. In his statement the junior senator admitted In addition to the imitation pearl necklace given Mrs. Robinson, Stephenson presented him and his partner, Frank A, Symmes, witli Serine emldems, but declared t,hat all the gifts were of nominal value. “1 hope the prosecutors will publish everyhing found in those boxes,” Robinson declared. "There is nothing in my public life that 1 would care to conceal.” Portland Woman, Who Was Married In Lion’s Den, Seeks A Divorce Porland Ind. Nov. 19 —• (UP) — Mr. and Mrs. Earl Osenbaugh who were married in a cage witli lions here 17 years ago to win $lO, are at the parting of the matrimonial ways. The wife is asking for the divorce. She alleges Osenbaugh has never provided a home for her and that boxes served them as furniture. She says she was forced o do washings to earn a living and had also done a man's work unloding coal from cars. o . Thinks Dope Peddlers Society’s Big Evil INew Yprk —(UP) —Persons supplying drugs to the slaves of the habit are the most vicious and dangerous menaces to society, says Ralph H. Oyler. Federal narcotic agent, in an article in this week's issue of Liberty Magazine. The Harison Narcotic Law passed by Congress 13 years ago, Ovler explains, which prohibited the retail sale of narcotics except cn orders from a doctor, has made it impossible for the dope peddler and the addict to procure supplies made in America. "During the last four or five years practically all illicit drugs have been brought here from Europe by huge syndicates which operate in several countries, with the utmost secrecy." he says. "We have every reason to believe." he says, "that there are at least 25 big dope syndicates in New York today, most of them headed by men of some position, or at least with wealth and executive ability." J —o Wells County Bootlegger Fined In Dunkirk Court Portland. Nov. 19 Perry “Red” Addington. Wells county bootlegger, came to grief At Dunkirk last Tuesday afternoon when lie bumped up against Sheriff Benn Hawkins and Deputy Sheriff Paul Ashley, who had been called to that place to investigate an alleged altercation. As result Addington was brought to the Jay county jail in default of a fine of $232.50 which he was assessed in the court of Mayor Gaunr, at Dunkirk. Relatives were to come here Wednesday from Wells county and pay the fine. o “Water Cure” Given Cars By Fire Plugs Chicago Nov. 19—(UP) —The Chicago fire department has adopted a novel plan to prevent motorists from parking automobiles near fire plugThe plan is called the “Water Cure.’ As soon as the department finds a ear parked too near a plug, the auto • mobile is immedialely given a drench ing. This practice is followed ever though no fire is in the vicinity. t o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pays

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Day Os Taller And Heavier Chorus Girl Is Heralded By Flo Ziegfeld;

By Sum Love t (U.P. Staff Correspondent) New York. Nov. Hl t UP) Stidden-I ly converted to the the ry “the more' girl, the more sex appeal.” Florenzl ’ Zelgfeld Is picking his new dancing! , chorus larger than he hits dared since; hefting the war. The noted blorifier of American womanhood lot down the bars when ho , advertised for girls for “Rosalie," his J , forthcoming production sttirring Marytin Miller, who recently obtained a. . Paris resignation from the Pickford fa--mlly, anil Jack Donahue. Wanted: Chorus girls 5 feet 5 Inches 1 ! tall apply Ziegfeld theatre." read the , ad in N»w York papers. This Is an inch taller than the limit for dancing girls Ziegfeld has set for; years. It brought forth more than 460- • applicants hitherto unfamiliar to the . Ziegfeld eve. I “The short and skinny phase has abottt had its day" said Ziegfeld. “I am going to try them a trifle larger and a bit heavier. You know. I think the' < hkve more sex appeal that way." Ziegfeld thus became a convert to the theory of Miss Mae West although 1 he denied that hi' was familiar with i' Miss West appeared last year as the • principal charmer, in a play called > "Sex.” She faced a matter of dramatic 1 necessity, for unle s Miss West cont vinced the audience that slie was a ■ three-alarm armful the whole theme of • "Sex" fell flatter than a Child pancake • After carefully thinking the matter, > Miss West went on a diet of bananas • and hot fudge sundaes with whipped 1 cream until she gained 20 pounds. The ’ rest is history. The police stopped “Sex” as a menace so public morals and incarcerated Miss West in the hoosegow cn Welfare Island until she lost weight again. | Zeigfeld however, has decided to risk

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I In in "Rosalie," He iteamed when hd* J looked over the 400 odd blonde andj biitiielte huskies who answered his? 1 modest a<l. Then he lined them ujl’ I across the stage in company front—;2s in a row an I peered at them I tently through his beauty glasses. w I Ziegfeld wears a special pair of I ses when he picks his chorus They magnify it) times anil are said I to have an attachment that digs him - in the ribs when focussed on the sort, ; of i s .il ths’ < millionaire's I bride in a year. -, Ziegfeld gave only 20 violent starts' I at this examination, after wlUch * sent the other 380 or so applicants back to their Woolworth counters and i manicure tables. The survivors he 1 turned over to Ills experts upon darn—- . ing and voice for a final weeding out.' The full staff was there, including Ed- , die Canto-, Ada May, Sigmund Rent- | berg and Ccorge Gershwin. '"All other things being equal, keep I the plumpest ones!' cautioned the great impresario as he left the stage. o ——— Mussolini Hero Os Fascist’s New Play Cremona, Italy —(United Press)— Roberto Farinacei, Premier Mussolini's one-time fiery lieutenant and former secretary-general of the Fascist Party has decided to devote himself to the ! theatre. He has wLitten a three act drama i called "Redemption,” which is underM stood to have a strong political fla.-. I vor, and in which the hero, u somewhat i thinly disguised Mussolini, saves his ■ country from anarchy and disruption. ■ o — Use Limberlcst Washing Powder.