Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1927 — Page 5

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■club calender I Tuesday * , Arc m e Section, Miss Carlisle, I rW.'.'M. ♦ 'W I K Links Club 1. 0. O. F.. potI luck supper. ■ * !< Thanksgiving Social, Bobo I House. I fei.iu: Matron's Club, Mrs. Fetal ()'- t Briem 7:30 I’. M I Hl<l|l my Circle, Evangelical | rtl ‘ ul Hazel Peterson. ■ Wednesday I |Rri Fide ( ' lllb ’ Mr3 ' Erctl Blosser ’ | 2'W I' M | tflfcnksgiviitg Program. Mt. Pleasan' t SeteO< | Monday I club, Mrs. Jesse Sutton. I m. local girl I iißollege play I K. Lois Peterson, daughter of Mr | HKjy |rs John s. PeteAon of this city. I foßiueuiber of a castjroin Indiana | which will present the play ■ Windemere's Fan", tonight, at I rstt.v Auditorium at Hlonia- ■ according to a story of the I ®8«n:»iio" which appeared in today's I !«•<■ of Hie Indianapolis Star. Miss I Pst "is a member of’ the "Studio I an organization which preI sen ss< 'oral plays throughout the colI year. Enjoying a Thanksgiving ■ mi from her studies, Miss PeterI eon will arrive in Decatur tomorrow an I Km tow for an over Thanksgiving ■ Vfi' with her parents. i and Mrs. Harry Knapp. Mr. ami ■ |£. James 11. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. P ■ K ( . Thomas, Miss Angie Firks and Byford Macy, motored to Fort ■ Monday evening, wflere they I aEmled the production "The Poor ■ ~t the Majestic theatre. Tilt' ■ was given Monday evening, as a ■ benefit, by the Fort Wayne. I Tri Kappas. aLed lady I ENTERTAINED on birthday I the occasi.-n of her eightieth ■ anniversary Mrs. Bargain Ad & ter was guest of honor, Sunday, at a ■ W? delicious noon-day dinner, at her I HKiie. :;49 Winchester street. Th& ocX ®.s-ii>n also happened to be the birth- ■ ■ of Mr. C. A. Martz of Fort Wayne. ■ kbel'aew of Mrs. Adler, who was also I for the day. A-birthday cake II flowers adorned the dinner table I were laid for Mrs. Lena .Vend- ■ of Markle; Mrs. Caroline S Verla Runyon and Oscar I i-ger of Linn Giove; Mr. and I C. A. Martz of Fort Wayne; Mr. I !■' A,ls ' ()rville Haruff. Mr. and Mrs. I Adler. Mr. Edward Adler, Miss I ■1 1 ... l Walters..and Miss Anna Adler I and Mis. Ford BLeeke of For’ I wete guests during the even I I Research club I ® hIOYS MUSICAL AFTERNOON ■ ■Mrs. C. E. Bell was hostess to the I ■n.M'jn h Club, Monday afternoon, at i |Sei' home on Adams street. Mis. E D ■ of this city, and Miss Lydia ■ a Foreign Mis.-ionary f?om I'o--I Hico, were guests of the Club. Mrs. I Smith had charge of the program ■ the afternoon, het club topic lieitrn I Ha Musical Afternoon”. As a preface | her program. Mrs. Smith read tile Iteresting story of the life and ro ance of Carrie Jacobs Bond. Mrs. E. Engeler and Mrs. C. E. Bell then ng in duet ‘‘l Love You Truly” “A ttle Pink Rose” was then sung by rs. Bell, as a solo. “His Lullaby” a let by the same two ladies, preceded e (losing number, “At the End of a irfect Day”. The program was very Pertaining and greatly enjoyed. At e close of the meeting, the hostess rved dainty refreshments. The next aeting will be held at the home oi rs. Jesse Sutton. R. AND MRS. DUGAN TTENDED DINNER DANCE Mr. and Mis. C. A. Dugan were ests at a Dinner Dunce and Bridge, onday evening, which w‘as given by e Van Wert Country Club, at the ks Home in Van Wert. At seven dock a very elaborate four-course nner was served. Following this, the owd enjoyed both dancing and idge until a very late hour. Mr. and rs. Dugan are members of the Van ert Country Club. Th-> Literature Department of the Oman's Club will meet, Tuesday evR> (tonight) with Miss Ann Callisat the George Flanders residence on >utli Third street. The meeting will 1 called at seven thirty o'clock. A 'Ok review will be given by Miss izabeth Peterson. Mrs. Ruby Durkin <1 Mrs. C. A. Dugan. Rs c. e. bell iCEIVES INFORMALLY Following the concei t of Mrs. Eli F ebirt and Mrs. Lutie Baker Gunn at ?h school auditorium, Monday evenMrs. C. E. Bell, assisted in the wiving line by Mrs. John Tyndall,

Miss Dessolee Chester and Mrs. Dau Tyndall, received the members of the Music Department and a few other guests to meet the two entertainers. The Hell home was beautifully decorated in huge yellow and rose chrysanthemums for the occasion. The reception was most informal and during the evening, impromptu entertainment was furnished by Mrs. Cecil Moser, Mrs. C. E. Bell and Mrs. Dan Tyndall as vocalists; Miss Mildred Ake.v and Mrs. Carrie Haubold, as pianists and Miss Mary Neptune as a reader. Miss Mary Madeline Coverdale presided at the Orthophonic. Later in the evening, delicious refreshments, prepared by Mrs. Maud Dorwin, were served to the forty guests. Mrs. Bell was assisted in serving by Miss Kathryn Dorwin, Mrs. Fred Smith, .Miss Dessolee Chester and Mrs. Dan Tyndall.

ENTERTAINS GUEST FROM PORTO RICO ReV. and Mrs. O. E. Miller and : family have as llteir guest at the Baptist parsonage. Miss Lydia Huber, i of Porto Rico. Miss Huber has been' a Missionary under the Home Board ' of the Baptist church for the past fourteen years and during this time has been stationed at Porto Rico Mies Huber will be a visitor until next Saturday in the Miller home. Mrs. G. W. King, of New York City, a guest for the past several days of Mrs. Philip Obenauer, North Fourth street, will leave tomorrow for-Day-ton, Ohio, where she will visit before returning to her eastern home. Miss Alice L. Coombs, also a house guest of Mrs. Obenauer, will go to Fort, Wayne, tomorrow for an indefinite visit, returning to Decatur, however, 1 before her return to San Diego. I California. CIVIC DEPARTMENT REPORTS ON PLAY The Civic Department of the Woman's Club met Monday evening in the Library Rest Room. Reports and bills of the various committees who acted on the production of the Civic Department play “Phillippa Gets There”, 1 were presented and the bills allowed. | 'inal check-up on the production shows the proceeds to be $110.21. In addition to this the entire Woman s Club was admitted to the production on their! Chib membership alone, thereby eliminating the expense of a special program being presented bv the Civic Department. Figuring their proceeds on that basis, the Department placed their net proceeds at $180.21. The committees in charge of the production included: Play and Cast Committee- Mrs.) C. L. Walters, Mrs. B. R. Farr and Mrs. Ben Devor; publicity committee, | Mrs Herman Myers, Mrs. Glen Neptune, and Mrs. Frank Braun; property committee, Mrs. John T. Myers, Mrs. j Paul Edwards and Mrs. Leigh Bowen; I Chairman of Tickets, Mrs. B. R. Farr. | The Civic Department as a whole was very appreciative of the ultimate efforts of these committees, and also cast a vote expressing gratitude to the members of the cast and all others Who had assisted in making the play the success it was, both artistically and financially. Mrs. W. E. Smith gave a general report on the results of the Fruit Drive, of which she acted as chairman. The complete report is not ready as yet and will bo> made public in the very near future.

• — 0 Six-Year Presidential Term Favored In Mexico I Mexico City, Nov. 22 —(UP)--The chamber of deputies lias approved unanimously the proposal to extend the term of the President of Mexico to six years, our years is tlie present term. Two months ago tlie measure was passed unanimously by the Senate. It won must be passed by two thirds of the state legislatures. o — Farmer Commits Subside Brookville, Ind., Nov. 22. —(INS) — Despondent over continued illness of his wife, Fred Stone, 32. prominent Franklin county farmer, walked into a cronfield on his farm and shot himself through the breast witli a shotgun. Stone walked half a mile and then collapsed, dead. O' ' Bluffton Man Sues Former Bank Official Bluffton, Nov. 22.—(INS)—Howard | Foust, a local man. today filed a complaint in Wells circuit court in the nature of a civil actoin against John '' S. Gilliland, formerly vice-president of the StUfl.'ibakcr bunk seeking judg-, ment against him personally on a deposit of sfi(» he alleges he made at the Studabaker bank, now in the hands of a receiver, on tlie day the bank was open for business. He asited judgment for SIOO. He alleges that Gilliland. as an employee of the bank, would know the condition of the bank and that it was insolvent. o Phil Macklin will go ‘o Indianapolis tomorrow ou a business trip. *

DECATUR DAILY, DEMOCRAT] TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1927,

t- f n Mru. Holcombe’s Technique By EDGAR T. MONFORT tL ; 1 ■.'===« . (Copyrlsht.) HlT’B n lie! The wicked don't flee. 1 and they aren’t punished either!" Clarice Mackay burst into the room mid dug her little fingers into the palms of her hands to keep from screaming, "Have you lost your mind?” asked Alice 'Dalmain, calmly looking at her roommate. "For a bachelor girl you certainly lack the poise that Is part of our creed.” Clarice merely gave her friend a withering glance, flung her hat on the table and herself Into the deep chair by the window. "But it's tlie third time this week!” she said after a moment. "What’s the third time this week?” asked Alice, glancing across at the slender little figure so fashionably clad in black georgette. Clarice was a lovely girl, Alice reflected, but terribly lacking In poise and so utterly dependent upon Jack Withers for her happiness, Alice amended more fairly. "You know that little widow, Mrs. Holcombe?” Clarice went on. “Well, she was at the dance the other night and I like an idiot introduced Jack to her, and the minute she spoke to him I knew It was all up with me. I could see him falling for her right on the spot. She has that pitiful little girl oh-l’m-too-little-and-frlghtene<l • to • to-cross-the-street-alone manner about everything #be does. Oh, her technique is perfect. Don't fret, she's got him bound and gagged. I’ve seen her with him three times this week and I’ll let lie's spent more money on her already than lie has on me in all tlie two years lie’s known me. She’s deadly. That's the dreadful part about it. If it were some little lonely girl I could almost resign myself thinking about how happy Jack was making her, but that thing goes after every man In sight. I know her! And when she sees mo site’s so sweet to me I could kill her; drags me into the drug store and treats me and gushes over me and simply Ignores my icy manner. It’s impossible to squelch her. Oh, Alice, I'm so wretched I could die! And the worst is she's so attractive and varnpish she could marry anybody, and then to go and take Jack away from me, and after I’d Introduced him to her. She hasn’t a conscience or a heart” "Never mind, honey,” soothed Alice. “Don’t you pay any attention to her, and when Jack comes around be just as nice to him as ever. He'll get over it. A girl of that type can't hold a man—that is, not a sensible manlong. .They'll all fall for her at first, but they soon find out there’s nothing to her.' He’ll get over It before long.” ! “Get over it?” sneered Clarice. "You ' ought to see the adoring way he looks at her. He’s head over heels In love wilh her, and she’s Just pulling him along for all she’s worth.” "I wouldn’t be too sure," said Allee, “and I’d let him see me with other men every chance I got. I'd go to dances and movies and anywhere I could." “What heart have I to do anything?” said Clarice with exasperation. “I only want to die!” But all the same she did take Alice’s advice and a few weeks later found herself one evening at a party, one of a dozen guests, among them Jack and Mrs. Holcombe. Jack’s manner was strained and he seemed embarrassed in Clarice's presence, but the little widow was her usual gay, playful self. When she saw’ Jack talking to Clarice she went over to him and tugged nt his cm. “Naughty boy,” she teased, "t'orne away. You brought little Evelyn to the party and not Miss Mackny. I won’t love oo any more, ever, ever again !’’ Jack flushed and looked silly. Somehow lie felt that she bad made a foot of him in the presence of Ids erstwhile sweetheart. "Isn't lie naughty, naughty. Miss Mackay?” she said, looking mischievously at Clarice. “I don’t think so," the girl answered In tier most cheerful manner. “1 think lie’s nice.” "Thanks, Clarice, you always wfere a trump!” said Jack warmly. For the first time in Mrs. Holcombe’s

, shallow little life she felt defeated. 1 With a toss of her golden head she turned away from the two and joined another group across tlie room. Clarice was happier than she had been In weeks. She put a gentle hand on , Jack’s arm. “You’d better go back to her, dear," she said kWlly. “After ail, you are her escort tonight." I “Yes, but darned if I'll ever bo again. That is, If you’ll take me back —for keeps this time," he said, turning away and going toward the widow. The next day he called Clarice Mackay for a date, and now certain i that siie had won him back she told ''.Mice all about the little incident of ' the night before. I* “It seems to me the wicked generally punish themselves,” said Alice thoughtfully. "Site cooked her own goose that time by making him appear ridiculous In public.” “Maybe so,” sighed Clarice, “but now I've got him back I don’t care about anything.” The Slandered Wife "My wife's as virtuous as a cloudbank full o’ nngels," sez ol’ Lem Lentil, "but she's got the ‘gimme's’ mid that’s why I call her a wantin’ woman" 1 —Farm and Fireside.

WEALTHY OIL MAGNATE AM) OTHERS CITED (CONTIA'I'KD » HUM PAOB OVE) of the Sinclair-Full trial with “an automobile as long as a city block.” Gordon replied that Kidwell's nqtne was not included beepuse he considered that Kidwell's ease was already before tho court in the affidavits meatinned. The court, however, thought that Kidwell's name should be included, “Weil," said will draw up a separate petition for hitri and present it later.” o * ¥ * HOSPITAL NOTES * ¥ ¥ ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ Josephine Weasi, Decatur, underwent a minor operation on the nose this morning. Vera Lenerich, baby, underwent an operation on the eye. Mrs. Avon Burke, surgical patient,' continues to improve nicely. oCorn Borer Control In Indiana 95 Per Cent Perfect, Says Wallace Winchester, Ind.,- Nov. 22 (INS) Corn Borer control in Indiana this year was 96 per cent perfect, Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist told a large audience here. “Naturally the five percent of worms remaining spread and reproduce but only in such numbers that they are being contioiled,” Wallace sai.d “The borer has spread into 130 townships in sixteen Indiana counties because it is a physical impossibility to exterminate every worm” Wallace praised the cooperation shown by farmers in corn borer eradication work. National Guardsmen On Duty In Colorado Mines Denver, Colo., Nov. 22— (UP) — National guardsmen on duty at the Columbine mine, scene of a clash yesterday which brought death to five miners and injury to two score others, were under snipers tire for three hours today. The firing was sporadic and on one was injured, reports to the office of Governor Wm. H. Adams said.

i THE CORT I Ku I Tonight—Tomorrow if | “IRRESISTABLE LOVE” | with Norman Kerry and Lois Moran. brt A breath-taking irresistible love drama mingled an with comedy and action galore. gj ifi “Queens Wild” Comedy —lO c, 25c □R THANKSGIVING "BETTER OLE.” featuring gj !sh] Sid Chaplin. A great picture. Sp

w | LL wO — e i m Reserve your gifts now—buy them when convenient No need for last minute buying this year! Come in and make your unhurried selection now. We’ll gladly set your gift aside on payment of a small deposit. You can meet the balance in amounts to suit your convenience, between now and Christmas. Our store sparkles with a variety of gifts that last —many of them just received. Why not visit us today and choose leisurely from a complete assortment! Pumphrey’s Jewelry Store

Cold Wave Settling | Over The Middlewest Chicago, Nov. 22. —(UP)—Riding on ' an icy wind from the northwest, al cold wave was settling over tho mid- i dlewest today. The drop in temperature hit North Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska last night, and zero weather was forecast for today. it was eight degrees above zero at Dodge City and Williston, N. I)., while Moorehead, Minn., reported 12 above. Sub zero temperatures were recorded from Canadian points, Edmonton, Alta., reported 30 below. o .— Personate (■gpUUMahK SOKBS&n Thursday of this week will be Thanksgiving day and business in Decatur will cease. There will be no publication of Hie Daily Democrat on that day. We will appreciate a report |of any social affairs you may know 'about, for Fridays paper, Felix Maier was a member of a Decatur pat ty which motored to-Colum--1 us, Ohio to attend ttie Ohio Statelllinois football game. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Beavers motored to Columbus, Ohio, this morning. They I will Ire accompanied home tomorrow by their son. Glen, a student in Ohio , State University will spend ills i Tlianksglving at home. i D. B. Erwin, Roy Mumma, Freeh ' Hower, Joe Elzey and David Adams of the local Knights of Pythias lodge motored to Geneva last night where they attended a meeting of that lodge. Miss EmlHe" Crist, Superintendent of the Adams County Memorial hospital, returned horn from Grand Rapids , Michigan, Monday, where she was called because of the illness and death of an uncle. Preacher Leaves Church To Become Laundryman Petersburg, Ind.—(lNS) —From soul cleanser to a clothes cleaner is the progress of J. Frank Jenner until recently pastor of the irst Methodist | chut ch here. Rev. Mi. Jenner has entered the ■ laundry business here on a year’s leave of absence from his congregation. o ...i. -WWW Get the Habit —Trade at Home, it Pays

i THE ADAMS Theatre j i TONIGHT and WEDNESDAY ! MATINEE WEDNESDAY at 3 I’. M. I I THE WORLD’S GREATEST SPECTACLE! > “BEN HUR” | 1 with RAMON NOVARRO, Betty Bronson, May McAvoy, Francis X. Bushman and Carmel Mvers. I j SEE:- Hie Star of Bethlehem Jerusalem Bestored j) Meeting of Ben Hur and Esther Fall of the House of j, • Hur The Well at’Nazareth Thrilling Golh y Scene r ! THE SEA FIGHT The Steeds of Araby Great Belting j 2 Scene of the C.ircus Maximus THE STl'l > I’'Nl)()rS - I CHARIOT BACK Messala Wrecks the Greek BEN £ Hl B WINS! Ihe G-dileean Legions THE I’ROCES- I i SION OF PALMS "THE LAST St I’PER” Esther £ jl Finds Mother and Sister of Judith THE MIRACLE! L j Ihe Happy Reunion of BEN Hl'B and Esther! THE ORIGINAL "BEN HUR" MUSIC SCORE . i! WILL BE PLAYED WITH THE PICTURE. . I 25c 50c i - Wednesday Matinee at 3 P. M.—2sc, 35c. 7 1 THURSDAY and FRIDAY—‘BECKY” with Sally O’Neil and Owen Moore. I ■ Thmkogiving Day Matinee at 2 P. M.

I / \ 1 x \l^z z K 1 J ” V JTOUnSSTDWaOTHE Yon needn’t wait until Thanksgiving to be Thankful you didn’t wait. Between now and Thanksgiving hundreds of new Suits and O’coats will be purchased by you and the 1737 other men in Decatur. Some buyers will come early—others will take their good elegant time, and white in this stock you would be safe right up to the last tick of the clock, we want you to realize that the earlier the better—and bigger choosing. We’re ready now—asking you not to put off what other men are pitting on. Michaels-Stern ThanksgivingSuits and O’coats $15.00 to $45.00 JetwvT-My&cd & Seu J CLOTH. \G AND SHOES J FOfC DAD AND LAO- < DECATUK< INDIANA**

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